Jayzus CaseyBlackburn that thing must be the size of a cow!! I remember using one of the first portable PCs way, way back in time when I was still a little kid. You couldn't call it a lap top because it would crush your legs if you did put it on your lap. It was the size of a family suitcase and weighed a ton. I can't remember the specs, but you lay it down flat on its side like a suitcase, it used those ol' flimsy 5.25" floppies, had 7"or 9" black/green screen on one side, and when upright the keyboard fitted into the top hidding the floppy drive and screen. Anyone know what this PC was? Aaah, I still remember using MultiMate and playing Bored Of The Rings text adventure on it....memories.
I've got a Sony laptop, 366mhz, 192mb ram 40gb hard drive running winXP that i use as my wireless walk about browsing machine.
I work in a video store, the 286 has the small database on it, the whole GUI and OS is simple monochrome text with a few ASCII characters to seperate things. Works fine for what we need it for.
No, it wasn't as flash as that Amstrad, but your useful link has allowed to find the luggable PC I was trying to remember. It was this a Compaq Portable II. Now that's a big brick!!! I also remember using the Compaq Portable 386 once we had the Portable II replaced. I can't forget that fire-orange screen, dead funky!!
We used to have an old amstrad that had only a word processing system on it. It had a black CRT monitor with green text, and all the h/ware was encased in the monitor itself IIRC. Funky little system.
It sounds similar to what I used up until 2 months ago. I used a WYSE terminal except mine had no word processor. Any time you pressed a key it went to our head office [1000km away], was processed then sent the character back to your screen. In peak times up to 2 mins before each character appeared!!!! Go monochrome green!.
Sounds like a PCW8256, I used to have one, took 5.25" disks, and could play some pretty cool games on it too!
AMD 64 3200+ (at 2.5ghz) Twinmos 2*512mb CH-5 *UTT* 2-2-2-8@200. Tagan UO1 - new switching power supply Seagate 120GB Sapphire X850XT Dual DVI Lian-Li pc-61 Sharp 172G-B My one and only rig... There is a p3 450 stipped into parts in a box with like 320mb ram and onboard 3dfx.
iMac Rev.b with 256mb ram, 266mhz G3 processor (OC'd to 300mhz) 10 gig hard drive. Runs OS X Panther like a dream
I've got an old Toshiba T1600 Laptop It's a good old 286 running at a whopping 16Mhz with a giant 256k extended memory running DOS 3.30 Whoo hooo!!! Feel that POWER EDIT: Oh yeah, it weighs in at about 10lbs
Gateway 2000 up in the attic. Specs include 133MHz Pentium P5, 48MB RAM, 8GB HDD and ATI Rage/Rage II PCI to run Windows 95. Kept because it contains fairly important databases and spreadsheets that either need to be kept (accounts) or would try being entered manually in Office 2000 or higher. Thinking about getting a stick of RAM and a relatively large HDD to try installing Windows Server 2003 R2.
the one in my office. It can handle GBA emulation quite well but that's about it. P3 500 256MB PC100 RAM (128 out of my own pocket)
I have a 300mhz blue and white g3 tower running 10.2 I use it for a tiny bit of coding for things that have to be dual platform and for playing Spaceward Ho! - the best turn based strategy game ever. (best because it is simple and because it is good.)
