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When I was in college in 1991, I used to get Computer Shopper and spend hours scouring it for a laptop (not a common thing then). I wanted one so bad, but was s
by russellbeattie 3y ago
When I was in college in 1991, I used to get Computer Shopper and spend hours scouring it for a laptop (not a common thing then). I wanted one so bad, but was sooo broke you can't even imagine. There were always random resellers getting rid of old laptops and I'd spend hours trying to figure out which one I might get. "That 286 with the flip-up half-screen black and white liquid crystal display is relatively cheap... but so clunky. Maybe I should save up for a 386? But all the affordable ones have horrible passive LCD screens that ghost. Wait... maybe if I sell a kidney..."
I never ended up ordering one, but I remember fondly the hours of dreaming about it.
- dcminter 3y agoI find myself doing this with modern configurators from e.g. System76 even though I have no earthly use for such an over-powered system. The Maplin Catalogue back in the day was my choice for idle window-shopping; one could page through it for the components of some very castles in the sky imagined diy computer or gadget - none of which I could have successfully built even if I'd had the budget. Top nerd nostalgia.
- dublin 3y agoI drooled over the DG/One and the Kaypro 2000 - two of the very first true "laptop" computers. (No, the GriD doesn't count - it had to be plugged in!) Way out of my budget, so I settled for a surplus, but new Commodore SX-64 luggable, with a fancy built-in 5-inch COLOR screen! Did the usual Commodore stuff on it, then got GEOS (made a C-64 a reasonable facsimile of a Macintosh - really) and used it to write all my final college papers and even my first resume. I still have it (in its original packing) up in a closet - need to pull it down sometime and figure out why the video sync doesn't work...