new laptop

[setoguro]

I picked up a compaq portable 386 today and it still works and it's a compaq! The thing is from 1989. My kid asked me if it was King Author's laptop. Looking at it from my side 16 years isn't that long ago but maybe to a kid anything older than them is ancient. Check this out. Here (http://www.computercloset.org/compaqportable386.htm)

[hockey man]

Thats an awsome "blast from the past!" Have fun with her.

[deddard]

I can remember seeing those gas-plasma machines in the computer mags- they were monstrously expensive. 3MB of RAM? back in those days, NASA would have been happy with it :D

[Paleo Pete]

Cool, I have a Compaq 286 LTE laptop (http://www.overclockers.com/articles1171/) still in working condition and a couple of 386 and 486 machines almost identical to it, most still work but I only have one power supply for them. The 286 takes a different power supply, I have that one. Also have a docking station that works with them. One 486 had a 350MB hard drive and modem that as far as I know should still work. The rest had 120MB drives and smaller, a couple have modems installed.

I haven't tried to do much with these dinosaurs yet, only very recently managed to dig up a few 720k floppies, which I need for an old Tandy 1000 I acquired not long ago. It's the one piece job, keyboard built into the case, RCA jacks to plug into a TV...only has 720k floppy and I think I have a copy of Deskmate here for it...Some of the laptops also use only 720k disks.

I'm not familiar with the portable in the original post, looks like an interesting critter to still have sitting around in working condition. I like older machines like that sometimes, DOS games and word processing need no more than a 386 or 486 and win3.11...printer drivers are somtimes a hassle though...

[poppy]

I would like to get my hands on what is said to be the original portable - the Osborne 1. Specs were:

Price: US $1,795
Weight: 24.5 pounds
CPU:Zilog Z80 @ 4.0 MHz
RAM:64K RAM
Display:built-in 5" monitor 53 X 24 text
Ports: parallel / IEEE-488/modem / serial port
Storage:dual 5-1/4 inch, 91K drives
OS: CP/M

I use to have a Kaypro II that I wish I still had. Any one remember that one?

[setoguro]

I have a few games to put on the thing (Zork1 and 2). My son want's to see those games we played back in old days. I'm in school now so I don't have a lot of time for play but I'll get around to it soon. Maybe this weekend beer, pizza and zork.

[PrntRhd]

Reminds me of the Kaypro64, accountants actually carried them around and found them useful. It used a CP/M OS.
:rolleyes: