First portable computer ad....what a hoot!

[Grandpot]

Disk?

Back in the 70's I worked for NCR on their mainframe computers. The removable disk was 12" in diameter, consisted of 3 platters, weighed 5 pounds, and held 5 megabytes. That's 1 pound per meg. Holy boat anchor, Batman!

 

[SPECTACUALR SPIDERMAN]

i think i worked on my first computer in 1974 in jr. high, led display

 

[MRH]

This was one of the computers I used to work on: http://oldcomputers.net/compaqi.html

I rented either this computer, or one that is very similar, from Compaq, in college when I was away for a semester. I still remember how difficult it was just to carry from the rental place back to my apartment, but it was great to have to to write my papers!

 

[Gray Ghost]

The Compaq was a dream compared to the first computer I operated. That one sat in an equipment rack about 5 ft tall, had two rows of buttons on top. You input the bootup instructions by punching the buttons on top, took quite a while. And data storage was on a standard audio cassette, we had to rebuild the tape players quite often.

As much as modern computers can be frustrating, I still wouldn't want to go back to the old systems.