Oldest Laptop

[davekill]

Vartok mentioned an oldest working laptop contest in the shout box ...

This one is pretty old and still works great
A Powerbook 520c I bought on eBay last month to run legacy System 7 software on.

First sold - May 1994,
25 Mhz processor
12 MB RAM
9.5" color dual-scan 8-bit display.
16 bit stereo.
Built-in 14.4k modem and Ethernet too!

And the first mac to use a touch pad.

During development it was code-named "Blackbird".
Probably the sleekest Apple designed, I took a photo of the SR-71 and 520c Blackbirds together.

[Meds]

Can't help but like it. Plus that camera looks very neat.

[davekill]

Thanks Meds, that's a Nikon D300 I borrowed from work.

[billybob476]

It's not a laptop, but we still have a good old Apple II at my parents house. I haven't plugged it in in awhile but last time I checked it still booted! My first laptop was a Pentium III so there's no way I'm in this race :)

[Bryancd]

In college my Junior year in 1988 I had a sweet little Apple II. I remember it had this fun fantasy game where you ran through dungeons throwing rocks at bad guys. :)

[billybob476]

I had an RPG called "Troll's Tale" that I remember being incredibly difficult, then again I was probably 6 at the time.

[Bromptonboy]

After an Osbourne Vixen - running CP/M - my first 'PC' was a Tandy 1000sx (8088 CPU, 256K of RAM - which I manually upgraded to 512K later on, and a 20MB HD).  1200BPS model added later on so I could do BBS's and hit Prodigy.  Good old MS-DOS 3.1!  Also,. I later splurged and put a time & date chip into the computer so I didn't have to keep entering the time after each reboot.  :)

[Rico]

I've never even had my own laptop - LOL!  Lynn has one and the kids too.  I've borrowed one on trips sometimes.  The closest for me is the iPad I got recently.  :)

[Bryancd]

When I was in Middle School in the late '70's we had TRS-80's and my friend had one. They even had a STAR TREK game where you fought ship to ship against Klingons! I remember when the Commodore 64 came out, that thing was like a super computer at the time.

[billybob476]

I like the story of Fran's first laptop. Her parents gave her an old one they had (might have been an original Pentium), she used it for a few months and then inadvertently sat on it. It continued life with an external screen attached.

This was long before I met her, I have since trained her to be more attentive around technology!

[turtlesrock]

interesting computer you got there! :)

[spaltor]

Define "working."  I have an old laptop that functions if it's plugged in, and you restart it a couple of times before attempting use.  It's a Toshiba T1910, with the little snap-on trackball and everything.  I got it second hand sometime in high school.  I believe they were first made in the early 90s, but I can't find exactly when.

[Vartok]

Wow, and I thought my still working HP laptop circa 1998 would be "old" but I should have known that this geek crowd would have that beat.   My oldest computer that still works is an Atari 1200.  I gasp to think what I spent on floppy drives, color monitor, and game cartridges on that one.

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Thanks Rico for making this a post - it garnered some interest!