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| What was the first PORTABLE computer that you really used? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 8 2010, 03:01 AM (1,204 Views) | |
| Axtremus | Aug 8 2010, 03:01 AM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Apple "Titanium" PowerBook G4.
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| blondie | Aug 8 2010, 03:41 AM Post #2 |
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Bull-Carp
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Heh, I remember the sales dude called it a Lap Top and I wondered why I'd want something so heavy on my lap. It was a Daewoo something or other. A total piece of carpola. I returned it the same week; they replaced it; I returned it a week later for one of those desk tops in the other thread. I guess I might have been kind of nerdy back then. I don't think other nurses had computers. I've changed obviously. Motherhood did that to me. Hubby has what you had Ax. |
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| George K | Aug 8 2010, 04:03 AM Post #3 |
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Finally
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![]() Powerbook Duo 230 |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Mikhailoh | Aug 8 2010, 04:07 AM Post #4 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Kaypro II.
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| John D'Oh | Aug 8 2010, 04:28 AM Post #5 |
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MAMIL
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| blondie | Aug 8 2010, 10:51 AM Post #6 |
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Bull-Carp
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Heh. I bet their are a few here who've never seen those. My uncle taught me to use one. Fvck autofill. Gotta add that to my sig line. |
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| George K | Aug 8 2010, 10:55 AM Post #7 |
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Finally
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I used one throughout college. It was nice, and four-place accuracy was all you needed. Didn't we put a man on the moon using slide rules? |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| ivorythumper | Aug 8 2010, 11:05 AM Post #8 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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![]() Something like this in about 1974 when I went to high school. |
| The dogma lives loudly within me. | |
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| Riley | Aug 8 2010, 12:20 PM Post #9 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Settings>General>Keyboard |
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| 1hp | Aug 8 2010, 09:27 PM Post #10 |
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Fulla-Carp
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![]() [I still have my TI 59A.........and it still works!] Edited by 1hp, Aug 8 2010, 09:28 PM.
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| There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those that understand binary and................ | |
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| Mark | Aug 8 2010, 09:30 PM Post #11 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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___.___ (_]===* o 0 When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells | |
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| big al | Aug 9 2010, 07:12 AM Post #12 |
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Bull-Carp
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![]() All right, I'll confess that it was my oldest son's computer, but he did let me use it. This looks like the slide rule I went through college with and used at work until I got this. I carried this in a belt pouch to and from work for awhile in the 1970s. I still remember that I paid $125 for it in five installments through a discount the company I worked for then arranged. Big Al |
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Location: Western PA "jesu, der simcha fun der man's farlangen." -bachophile | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Aug 9 2010, 07:18 AM Post #13 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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![]() I did some pretty amazing **** on this beast if I do say so myself. |
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| Luke's Dad | Aug 9 2010, 07:58 AM Post #14 |
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Emperor Pengin
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This thing was cool as hell. Got it in 1989 to help me through Calculas and Physics. Figured it looked enough like a calculator, that it would pass a visual inspection with the teachers (which it did). Had to personally program everything into it with basic. Which is why, by the time I was done programming all the formulas and information I figured I would need to know into them, I had ended up learning and memorizing all of it, and never needed to use the functions I put in there!
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| The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it. | |
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