Old Enough To Remember?

core-aggie said:
Oh yea??

My very first portable personal computer was a 1982 Panasonic Sr. Partner. It weighed over 30 US lbs. it had a click-on keyboard, a carrying handle, 2 5-1/4" floppy drives (pre 3 1/2"). I have no recollection of the green on black text screen size (3"x5" ??).

It had NO HARD DRIVE - you had to boot the operating system 5 1/4" floppy in one drive, boot up, then use a second 5 1/4" floppy for your data storage. Those 5 1/4" floppy disks were true floppy!

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I still have one of these... with a lead acid battery! :tongue-2x:

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core-aggie said:
Oh yea??

My very first portable personal computer was a 1982 Panasonic Sr. Partner. It weighed over 30 US lbs. it had a click-on keyboard, a carrying handle, 2 5-1/4" floppy drives (pre 3 1/2"). I have no recollection of the green on black text screen size (3"x5" ??).

It had NO HARD DRIVE - you had to boot the operating system 5 1/4" floppy in one drive, boot up, then use a second 5 1/4" floppy for your data storage. Those 5 1/4" floppy disks were true floppy!

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I used to have a Kaypro portable. Very similar.

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I still have a Commodore SX-64 (portable-ish) and an Osborne Executive (also portable-ish) out in the garage. And the first computer I had was a Commodore PET - with 8K of RAM (Upgraded from 4K!) and a cassette tape drive for storage.
 
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