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31 Aug 2011, 6:12 pm

If you could have any vintage/rare laptop what would it be?
Mine would be a Sony Vaio TR1MP.
What would yours be?

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31 Aug 2011, 7:25 pm

Vintage laptop? You're making me feel old.

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31 Aug 2011, 10:05 pm

If a laptop from 2004 counts, then the one that broke when my dog Will tripped over the cord, trapping a good twenty unfinished stories in there.

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01 Sep 2011, 8:37 am

Who Invented the laptop

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01 Sep 2011, 8:46 am

Madbones wrote:

If you could have any vintage/rare laptop what would it be?
Mine would be a Sony Vaio TR1MP.
What would yours be?

An acorn a4. The nicad battery pack was bigger than the actual chassis Lmao. Cool at the time though.

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01 Sep 2011, 8:51 am

bigbadbeast2007 wrote:

Who Invented the laptop

Hamish Mc Laptop.

Scottish inventor and cousin of John Logie Baird. His was powered by steam and had trained Russian hamsters to stoke the boiler.

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01 Sep 2011, 10:43 pm

bigbadbeast2007 wrote:

Who Invented the laptop

probably apple as they were really into the whole, screen and computer AIO computers right from the start (1984).

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02 Sep 2011, 3:32 am

I have one of these:

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02 Sep 2011, 3:40 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epson_HX-20 first laptop according to wiki. but nothing really started looking like a modern laptop till http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_100 in 1991.

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02 Sep 2011, 12:21 pm

I remember always thinking the AlphaSmart word processors we used in elementary school were awesome. I think they were AlphaSmart Pros but I'm not sure...

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02 Sep 2011, 1:37 pm

I know a guy who has an old IBM laptop, 1994-ish. It runs DOS, but I have no idea about the specs. The problem is that the words vintage and laptop sound like contradictions to me.

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02 Sep 2011, 8:08 pm

Knifey wrote:

but nothing really started looking like a modern laptop till http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_100 in 1991.

Not true. The TRS-80 Model 200 came out in 1984.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TRS-8 ... d_Vaio.jpg
http://oldcomputers.net/trs200.html

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02 Sep 2011, 8:34 pm

lau wrote:

I have one of these:

Something tells me you couldn't run Crysis on it.

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02 Sep 2011, 9:42 pm

JPanzer wrote:

lau wrote:

I have one of these:

Something tells me you couldn't run Crysis on it.

Crysis requirements:
Processor - 2.8 GHz or faster (XP) or 3.2 GHz or faster* (Vista)
Memory - 1.0 GB RAM (XP) or 1.5 GB RAM (Vista)
Hard Drive - 12GB

Z88 specs:
3.2768 MHz
32K RAM
1MB EPROM

Processor: 875 times too slow
RAM: 32,768 times too small
HD/EPROM: 12,288 times too small

Sooo close....

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02 Sep 2011, 9:42 pm

Apple Tibook

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04 Sep 2011, 8:02 pm

Ancalagon wrote:

JPanzer wrote:

lau wrote:

I have one of these:

Something tells me you couldn't run Crysis on it.

Yet sooo far...

It really does show far hardware and, in general, laptops have advanced in twenty years though. Staggering really.

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