Who has oldest working notebook?

My first notebook is from 1985

2006-1985 HP, Compaq, Toshiba & Tandy






Still works.. have all manual, disk, case

 

whoa! That Tandy is awesome. I bet it sports ten lines of monochrome power!

 

My friend's dad had his laptop since 1995. While it doesn't MATCH yours, jack53, in a tech world, ten-year old products are ANCIENT.

So basically, your laptop is not in existence

Just kidding. Nice old laptop there!

 

my desktop is 9 yrs old i know its not a notebook just pointing out that its almost acient next yr it will make it to smarts acient status wooohooo i take pride in my old technology lol

 

I have a very small Toshiba portege 3020ct - got it for free. Now it has 32mb ram, and it is expandable to 96. it has win98se that work ok. 2 pcmcia slots! I want to use it in a car as a GPS device over bluetooth.

Ivan

 

wow.. love the Tandy..

 

I bet I have the oldest still working ze4242 lol. I wont tell ya how many times I have "fixed" the pwr jack

 

I'm currently using a Dell Latitude. Specs:

400Mhz Processor (PentiumII)
Windows 2000 OS
Approx. 90 MB of RAM
Some video card that is rotting away.
Ditto for the sound card.

I literally can't play ANY games on this thing. Warcraft I? Nope. Emulating GB games? Nope. Man, it's going to be amazing when I get my new HP 6000t.

 

LOL I haven't seen one of those in years

 

grrr, should be ze4424 sorry.

 

I need to snap a picture of my line up. You would think I'm running a computer museum with some of the dinosaurs I have laying around...

 

Post them, I'd love to see 'em.

 

That Tandy is a beautiful machine...

 

Who makes your model? How about a pix of it?

 

It isn't the oldest but I have some old beige Compaq back at home with 166 MHz of Pentium power!

 

Anymore old notebooks here? I like this old stuff!

 

Wow, what a trip down memory lane! I used to own a Tandy 1400FD that was handed down from my dad, that was about 13 years ago, the thing I remember from that was that it had twin 720 KB 3.5" floppy disk drives and no hard drive and that it had a whopping 64 KB of RAM. What did that Tandy on the far right have, a mind boggling 16 KB RAM??!! LOL

Anyway, a very nice representative timeline...........Notebooks Through The Years

 

Thanks! I will never part with it as it is my first notebook and shows how far they've come in 21 years. Here a link about it:

http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/m600/

 

I Got a 486 compaq LTE-Elite - It runs on 12v - so I keep it down in the
storm shelter, its mint except the dead battery, I had a few of them, I
think this is the one with the DSTN screen - the one I kept has a TFT
screen

 

What year was the Compaq LTE-Elite made?

 

How about an NEC Multispeed (upgraded to the EL screen) from the early 80's. Used the NEC V30 CPU and ran DOS from two floppies (3.5inch, 720k). The original screen was a monochrome did not have a backlight, so I managed to get the screen (electro luminescense) and replace the old one with one that I could actually use (remember, this was text only).

I will have to check the specs, since I don't remember what the speed was or how much ram. It did run for 30 to 45 minutes (floppies require lots of power) and it was truely a laptop if you had a large lap. I think it was about 8-10 pounds (have to weigh it later) and still have the unit, it boots up, and still have to original carry case and manuals. Came with DOS and windows 3.0, but worked best with Gem desktop (from Digital Research, the guys who really invented the Apple/Mac interface wheh they were at PARC). This was a superfast (relative to windows) desktop interface with its own word processer, spreadsheet, drawing application (vector based) and paint application, but above all else, was the operating shell for Ventura publisher.

Much later, I upgraded to a Magavox (Phillips) Metalis, a 386sx computer, nice, bright monochrome screen, still works on ac (batteries dead), and it was, at the time, a pretty good machine. Had a small Zeos, great portable, monochrome, with small screen. Sold it to a gentleman who broke his and wanted a new one for the form factor. This one ran windows.

Wayne

 

1993 - so its not the oldest, but its old, got windows 95 on it,
I play sim city 2000 on it, and some emulators, Just when I am
in the storm shelter, waiting out bad storms

 

Can you post a pix of yours? I'd love to see it.

 

Anymore, any notebooks that's 5 years old is considered old and obsolete. Makes you wonder what they will be like in 2010

 

I've no ideal what year this thing was made, but its a IBM PS/Note 425(does anyone know?), anyway it looks old to me. Don't have my digital camera, but could take pics with web cam.

 

This unit is more or less identical to the ThinkPad 350. I believe that the "PS/Note" was what IBM was calling their laptop line before they decided on the "ThinkPad" name back in the early 90's.

 

Anymore (private owned) old notebooks out there?
Not many pixs so far...

http://1-4u-computer-graphics.com/NYFireworks.htm
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here is some more old laptops

Compaq LTE 5000 - sold it

Compaq Armada 4220T - sold it

Compaq M300

Compaq 1200xl - it lost its screen after a friend ran over it with his SUV,
it had some damage to its mother board, but I was able to keep it running
for a year or two, used it has a server for my Cingular wireless

 

Friend of mine has an old Compaq 386 notebook, not sure the timeline on it though

 

hey jack52:

i saw u on another notebook forum: notebookforums.com?

and i saw those same pics on that forum too! lol

thats an old laptop, and i nice setup u got there!

 

I have an old HP 110 Portable (1984). Clamshell, 16x80 LCD, MS-DOS and apps in ROM. Battery died years ago, but think it still works. Somewhere around here I also have a Portable Plus (1985) with another dead battery, and an HP85 (1980, but that's a desktop, not a notebook).

(I used to work at HP. Back in the 80's I helped design these things.)

 

Thank you! Yep, I use to hang out over there. But too many jerks there. I like it much better here!

Wow! You have any pixs of those? I like the old stuff. You must really know your stuff being in the buisness that long!

 

yeah dude those guys are jerks there! Expessially that guy with the alien icon! They are very mean and think they know everything!

Here is much better, i feel more comfy and i get the answers i need, from nice people.

 

and adinu real Ahole! Likes to start fights.

Anyway, haven't ran into any jerks here.

BTW, sorry to hear about your problem with your new notebook. I'd for sure order from another source.

 

yeah well i think im still going to get the dv6000t, maybe at costco.com...

 

It's been awhile... anymore old notebooks pics?

 

holy crap, we have the same joystick.. ha ha...

 

OMG that little Tandy is so cute

I have a 1.1Ghz PIII Notebook, with 256MB DDR RAM, and a glorious nVidia GeForce 2 Go, that seems to run CS:S at a decent frame rate

 

Anymore old notebooks out there? Personal ones that is, ones in museums don't count. Anybody have one that is older than 1985?


My first notebook is from 1985





Still works.. have all manual, disk, case

 

What year was it made?

 

It's not a lappy, but we used to have a TI-99/4



That design looks familiar. Hey wait a second... IMPRINT FINISH! (no joke, it sort of does look like my pavilion).

 

Haha, I have an old Tandy 1100FD that I actually just pulled out of the closet two days ago. I thought I remembered it being broken, but it actually boots and runs Deskmate. Too bad I can't find any of the old software it came with. I think it was made in 1992, so it's a bit younger than your older Tandy. I'll post pictures soon when I can find my camera...

 

Cool... I would like to see the pixs when you have time.

 

The battery/back compartment is a different color, but that's how I got it (It wasn't new...)

 

The first notebook I ever used was a Compaq LTE, but it was a 286! 16 Mhz I believe, and had a built-in 3.5" floppy and a BLUE monochrome screen. It also had a built-in 2400 bps modem which was nice.

 

Very, very NICE!

 

wow that tandy is quite a looker. considering its age its pretty dam small.

 

What year was yours made?

Let's see some more old notebooks. Especially Pre 90's

 

wow its crazy, these laptops are older then me lol