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Some day I should put pictures of my vintage laptop collection on-line.
I have the first Tandy laptop, the next generation Tandy laptop (with the screen that flips up like a modern laptop), the first Epson laptop (with built-in printer and cassette drive), and the first Apple laptop. Plus the first and second Tandy "pocket computers."
I'm wondering - what was the first Intel 8086 or 8088-based laptop? I need one of those....
And the flashdrive currently hanging around my neck, being one of the lesser ones at 16 mb, would be considered a piece of giddy-inducing technology back then. Then again, I was thrilled when I got a calculator in high school that could do square roots. It was well timed, I was having serious slide rule dread.
I've got a suitcase sized portable computer, heavy as undeclared sin, that's a 286 (I think). The keyboard is a separate panel that detaches from the front. It works like a dream, probably sturdy enough to stop bullets. Is it destined for a landfill? What can I do with insanely out of date technology that work perfectly well but which has no place in the modern world?
We used to have a Kaypro like that.
Either hang on to it for the antique value, or put it on eBay. Don't toss it out.
I used to have one of the old Kaypro lunchbox computers. I think those may have been 8086 or 8088.
I remember having a 5 MB hard drive. That seemed massive. I ran a BBS on an Apple IIgs off of it.
Now my cellphone has a 512MB memory card in it and I'm sitting in a train lounge with a laptop that has a 17" screen surfing the web without wires.
I remember when running two applications at once on one machine seemed decadent. Heee, MultiFinder!
I've thought about eBay, but the shipping on this monster would be horrendous.
I've seen computers like that on eBay, connie. Just be upfront about how much the shipping will be - someone might still buy it.
MultiFinder!
Yeah, it was like, about time! I remember getting an external disk drive for my MacPlus and being thrilled because it cut down on my floppy-swapping.
Yeah. I Microsoft Office 4.2 which shipped on something like 40 floppies for the Mac. I think they were even all HD.