The Laptop, Circa 1968

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Posted by timothy on Saturday July 4, 2009 @08:28AM from the some-turtles-have-nice-shells dept.

Harry writes "In 1968, computers tended to occupy entire rooms, and were therefore hard to take with you. But Computerworld reports on Anderson Jacobson's 75-pound Teletype-terminal-in-a-case, an early attempt to let folks compute from anywhere. (Well, anywhere they had power and access to a telephone for the Teletype's acoustic coupler.) Wheels were optional."

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HappyBirthday America, Candida, and Mexico by Anonymous Coward · 2009-07-04 08:43 · Score: -1, Offtopic

It year older today Happy Birdthday
1. Re:HappyBirthday America, Candida, and Mexico by Ethanol-fueled · 2009-07-04 09:20 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Happy Birthday America!
  
  We the Americans are fucking badass. We have the best toys. We wield the biggest dicks and the most advanced weaponry we use to blast the living shit out of everybody who fucks with us. We go to the Middle East and shit in their fucking faces just because we feel like it.
  
  Our women are the hottest. Our microbrews are the coldest. Our genes are the most desireable. Our space program is the envy of the cuckolded masturbators of Russia and China. We the Americans are the master race. We defeated the commies, and we don't take no shit from 14th century savages.
  
  Don't fuck with America. +5, informative
2. Re:HappyBirthday America, Candida, and Mexico by Anonymous Coward · 2009-07-04 09:22 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Cool story bro.
Cuz US Can MthrFckr by Anonymous Coward · 2009-07-04 12:50 · Score: -1, Offtopic

If u cud lick ur cunt u wud, mofo
USA USA USA
Ne1 gve a sht abt ne othr cntry?
HELLNO
USA USA USA