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durr286 · 08-19-2003, 10:34 PM

Although I don't, and haven't for years, used this computer. I still have it; the first computer i'd ever layed hands on.

286 Laptop (Backlit screen)
2 3 1/2 floppy drives
No hard drive
512k ram
About the size of a typewriter.
Thats about it.

It was a computer my dad got for work. We used to play Space Quest 2 on it when I was 6. Although i'm sure others have seen and used much older, it is about the oldest machine i've ever used.

My grandpa worked with computers since the early 60's and we always hear stories about the first hard drive-like devices that were pretty much a 6 foot tall rack with 6 big magnetic platters on it. An arm would pick up one of the platters, move it to the reader, read it, then put it back. Suprisingly they had about 180ms access time to them! No telling how much those went for back then, but hey, it beats using punch cards for storage!

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durr286 Upright Location: Northwest (the dry desert part)	Although I don't, and haven't for years, used this computer. I still have it; the first computer i'd ever layed hands on. 286 Laptop (Backlit screen) 2 3 1/2 floppy drives No hard drive 512k ram About the size of a typewriter. Thats about it. It was a computer my dad got for work. We used to play Space Quest 2 on it when I was 6. Although i'm sure others have seen and used much older, it is about the oldest machine i've ever used. My grandpa worked with computers since the early 60's and we always hear stories about the first hard drive-like devices that were pretty much a 6 foot tall rack with 6 big magnetic platters on it. An arm would pick up one of the platters, move it to the reader, read it, then put it back. Suprisingly they had about 180ms access time to them! No telling how much those went for back then, but hey, it beats using punch cards for storage!