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Reply to comment by pezjunki in This was a high end laptop in 1989. It’d cost 12,000 $ in today’s prices by Read_Icculus_
I had the Compaq. It literally came in a suitcase. The screen was amber though so it was awesome.
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Reply to comment by JrodRiga13 in This was a high end laptop in 1989. It’d cost 12,000 $ in today’s prices by Read_Icculus_
It was hit and miss with those batteries. Some lasted only a few minutes, some caught fire.
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Reply to comment by smoky77211 in This was a high end laptop in 1989. It’d cost 12,000 $ in today’s prices by Read_Icculus_
Type in WIN, hit return.
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Reply to comment by nicholasruunu in This was a high end laptop in 1989. It’d cost 12,000 $ in today’s prices by Read_Icculus_
Some nerds/geeks had multiple phone lines with modems attached where folks could dial in and post messages similar to today's Craigslist or Kijiji. The first few years of the internet was pretty much about porn and Internet Relay Chat. Users who bought those Toshibas were I-T types and business people who wanted to do more work away from the office. I was in Field Service in that era, myself and many others were very impressed with that product. Networking at the office was only just beginning in that tyme as well. The floppy drive enabled users to copy or save a file to the disk, take the disk to another machine which had a printer attached and print the file. We called it sneaker net. The best part about being an I-T Guy in that era was the chicks.
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Reply to comment by mcds99 in This was a high end laptop in 1989. It’d cost 12,000 $ in today’s prices by Read_Icculus_
16 address lines on the Front Side Bus. Whoa!