Who has oldest working notebook?

Your truely born in the Computer age then. They were pretty much unheard of when I was born.

 

Yeah most of these laptops posted up there are about 5-6 years older than I am!! Pretty damn sweet. The oldest laptop I had was an Hp Pavilion ze4427wm but I sold it to a good friend of mine.

 

i was born in 89 and i had my first pc in like 95 and i thought that was old lol

 

I have made (assembled from russian components) my first computer (RADIO-86RK - Russian model) in 1988. You can call it a laptop but there were no screen with it. You have had to connect it to your TV. It was B/W and has only had a 8-bit processor of 8086-Series (Russian analogue - KR580IK80). Because of russian made components, it was so unstable, so you have had to restart it very often! You could take it with you anywhere to your friends, connect to a TV and have fun. Also, you needed a cassette player to download the soft you want to use. Just used analogue line-out and that's it! It was a great FUN!!! Everyone thought that you are very COOL, having such a "MACHINE"!!!
After this we all been making a new machine - ZX Spectrum (Or Sinclair). It was a very different story with colour output and much faster processor and graphics, but same problem with Russian components (memory) annoyied very much!!!
I will post some pics if I will find any...Pity we did not have digital cameras those times

 

That is very interesting! I'd like to see some pixs if you have any...

 

Will definately do, if I will find any... But the case was custom made by me with materials bought on the market. Keyboard was made out of separate keys from the OLDER russian HUGE calculators. All soldering of a single chip and semiconductor were made by hands and a lot of sleepless nights were spent with that MACHINE to adjust it for the first start! There is a lot more to remember...

 

It's just amazing how far technology has come in 20 years. I can't wait to see what they have in the next 20.

 

The things you are expecting will most likely happen earlier

 

My '98 Dell Latitude will make "ancient" status next year... but it doesn't have anything on the Tandys here!

I've also got an IBM 5150 but without any sort of software I'm unable to figure out whether or not it works. Yeah, it's a desktop, no, it won't boot from USB...

 

My mom has one of the original portable PCs from Compaq. The ones that look and feel as heavy as a sewing machine? No HDD, 2 x 5.25 floppy drives and no wheels. All arms! I would take a pic but she moved to oregon recently. I'll see if she can send me one whenthey get unpacked.

http://oldcomputers.net/compaqi.html

There is a link to the system I'm talking about

 

You're right, like in 5 years. But just think what we'll have in 20. I'm still waiting on those flying cars.

 

That was a very interesting link!

Here is a interesting detailed link on my 1985 Tandy 600 notebook:
http://www.digitaldinos.com/DigitalDinos/Pages/Information/docT600FAQ30.html

 

Let's see some more notebooks that are older than 1990.

 

The oldest laptop I have is a Dell XPI CD, a Pentium 166 with a 12" screen. It still works, but very slow though.

 

I am typing this from a Dell Inspiron 4000:
PIII-800 MHz
RAM 512MB (Was 64 when I bought it!)
30 GB HDD (Was 10 GB Original)
4-USB 2.0 with PC-Card (1-USB 1.0 Original)
Runs WinXP and Office 2007 smoothly.

 

On some other thread, I posted pictures of a circa 1994 Toshiba Satellite T2400CS. However, the people I borrowed it from came back and we took it completely apart.

Specs:
Intel 486DX2 50MHz
8MB RAM (Required HIMEM!)
250MB HD (Megabytes, not Gigabytes)
9.5" 640x480 256-color dual-scan passive matrix LCD (if you think your new notebook LCD is bad, you haven't seen this one yet)
Windows for Workgroups 3.11
Built-in floppy drive
Ports: 2xPS/2, Serial, VGA, 2xPCMCIA (one double height/Type III), Parallel, Docking Station connector, SCSI(!)
20W Power adapter (!)

The interesting thing was, there were no vents or fans on this notebook. It didn't need them; it ran pretty cool. The HD was pretty loud, though. I bet if I put in an SSD, that thing would have been dead silent.

 

Mitsubishi MP 286L - This is technically not a notebook, since it doesn't have a battery. It's a 286 processor, with 20MB hard drive. I think DOS was standard, but the guy I bought it from had put on Windows 3.0. I gave it to my brother and I think he still has it in a closet somewhere.





Apple //c - Sorry, another non-notebook, but it is portable and plugs into any TV. Great for retro gaming. 128K RAM and a 5.25 floppy drive.



NOT MINE:



Macintosh Portable - I don't own this, but this thread reminded me of the time I made a pilgrimage to a local computer store to see this rarity when it was new.

 

Left pix is a Compaq Presario 1255 made in 1999 AMD K6-2 333Mhz 160MB memory 4GB hard drive CD ROM Windows 98se

Right pix is a Dell Latitude XP 4100C (date unknown) Intel 486DX4 100Mhz 4MB memory 2GB hard drive no CD ROM Windows 95

 

You still have all 4?

 

I may not have a very old laptop, but I have one of the earlier lenovo PC: 32mb ram, pentium2, etc.

The case is attached to the monitor

 

no those are two old notebooks. both pic are same

 

Does anyone have the first laptop ever made for the public?

The Osborne 1 was the first commercially successful portable microcomputer, released in April, 1981 by Osborne Computer Corporation. It weighed 23.5 pounds (10.7 kg), cost US$1795, and ran the then-popular CP/M 2.2 operating system. Its principal deficiencies were a tiny 5 inch (13 cm) display screen and single sided, single density floppy disk drives whose disks could not contain sufficient data for practical business applications.

I like to see anything that is pre 2000, 90's, and especially the 80's.
My Tandy 600 is pretty old being made in 1985

 

Let's not just talk about it... let's see a photo of it!
Let's see some more notebooks that are older than 1990.

 

that post should move to other fourm because it is not always HP

 

If you would have " Bothered" to see the first post/thread, you'd seen a HP AND Compaq so CAN it!

Let's see some more old notebooks... preferrably 89 or older.