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1983 Compaq unit. Couldn't find a price but I'm would guess it was around $8,000. "Designed to fit under a standard airline seat". I dragged around similar units to this... my shoulders ache just thinking about it.
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Mar 4th, 2005 12:02 PM #1
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From a discussion in Hot Deals I realized many people don't have an appreciation of PC history ... so I've dug through some ads I have and have found. Should be good for a few laughs.
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Mar 4th, 2005 12:04 PM #2 Definition of Portable ...
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Mar 4th, 2005 12:05 PM #3Deal Fanatic
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I played around with my dads old commodore 64 when I was little.
Loderunner and Jumpman.
Great games.
Got any old ads for this machine?Last edited by Montague; Mar 4th, 2005 at 12:08 PM.
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Mar 4th, 2005 12:16 PM #4Deal Guru
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I had used one of those 'portables' too ... Probably ~ 15-20 years ago ... It was basically a *full-size* IBM-XT with an integrated amber 7" or 8" CRT monitor !!! Veryyyyyyyyyyy heavy ...
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Mar 4th, 2005 12:17 PM #5 C64 1983 ad
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It's "lightning fast"!!! (Monitor and mouse not included) Reply With Quote
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Nostalgia
The sad thing is, I remember those units. They had a 6" green monochrome screen, the keyboard folds down and there was two large shugart drives.
Originally Posted by GreenWeenie
1983 Compaq unit. Couldn't find a price but I'm would guess it was around $8,000. "Designed to fit under a standard airline seat". I dragged around similar units to this... my shoulders ache just thinking about it.
The luggable, $8000 sounds about right. I think I had 512k RAM on mine. Reply With Quote
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Mar 4th, 2005 12:20 PM #8Deal Fanatic
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The real funny thing is that even after over twenty years it STILL works!
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Ahh 1983 marketing ploys..
anyone else think they wrongly used the word 'persons' ? and then did it over-and over again._______________
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Mar 4th, 2005 12:22 PM #10Deal Guru
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Oh, everybody loves that "Reset" button on the upper right corner of the Apple ][ computers. I personally think it plays a major role to the existence of our current "Ctrl-Alt-Del" magic combination !!
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Mar 4th, 2005 12:28 PM #11Deal Guru
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History of Intel's CPU .... http://cpu-museum.de/?m=Intel
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Mar 4th, 2005 12:30 PM #12 Logitech mice ...
Wonder if we can get a PM on the US$180 HiRez 300dpi mouse?
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That is what I hated about the C64. Originally Posted by willy
No reset button.
Too cheap to put one in!
Still apparently Commodore sold a ***load of these machines. Reply With Quote
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Mar 4th, 2005 12:36 PM #14Nightmares for us both! Originally Posted by Gee
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Please post pics of :
1. MS Word v1.x
2. Lotus 1-2-3
3. dBase
4. MS Windows v1.x (Man, I remember I used my joystick as a mouse, it fitted on 5 floppies !)Last edited by willy; Mar 4th, 2005 at 12:40 PM.
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