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> OK, we can all have a giggle at 'portable' computers from the early days of computing but at nearly 16 pounds the Mac Portable really was taking the piss. My

> OK, we can all have a giggle at 'portable' computers from the early days of computing but at nearly 16 pounds the Mac Portable really was taking the piss. My first computer-of-my-very-own was my beloved Compaq Deskpro Portable (autoexec.bat ftw). It weighed in at just under 30 lbs. Edit: I still have it some 25 years later, and it still works.

junklight 17y ago
In my first job I had a portable III http://oldcomputers.net/compaqiii.html http://oldcomputers.net/compaqiii.html - considerably lighter at a mere 20lbs! It was great - when there wasn't a seat on the train or at the station I could sit on it.