When I went to college at Virginia Tech in 1986 the college of engineering required all students to have their own PC. I bought the venerable IBM PC Portable. It was "portable" only in the crudest sense of the word. The specs are: 8086 processor w/ 8088 math coprocessor, 640K RAM, no hard drive, 2 5 1/4" floppies, 9 inch amber monitor, and a flip down keyboard. All of this packed into the svelte case about 16" W x 10" H x 20" D and weighing in at a feather-light 45 pounds! I used to lug it home on every school break and my siblings loved playing games on it. Miraculously, I've been able to keep it running all these years. I still have the disks for MS-DOS 6, a FORTRAN compiler, the word processor called Volkswriter 3, and this incredible golf game that provided way too many hours of entertainment late into the night in my dorm room. I actually pulled it out the other day and showed it to my kids and they both got a big kick out of the golf game.
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When I went to college at Virginia Tech in 1986 the college of engineering required all students to have their own PC. I bought the venerable IBM PC Portable. It was "portable" only in the crudest sense of the word. The specs are: 8086 processor w/ 8088 math coprocessor, 640K RAM, no hard drive, 2 5 1/4" floppies, 9 inch amber monitor, and a flip down keyboard. All of this packed into the svelte case about 16" W x 10" H x 20" D and weighing in at a feather-light 45 pounds! I used to lug it home on every school break and my siblings loved playing games on it. Miraculously, I've been able to keep it running all these years. I still have the disks for MS-DOS 6, a FORTRAN compiler, the word processor called Volkswriter 3, and this incredible golf game that provided way too many hours of entertainment late into the night in my dorm room. I actually pulled it out the other day and showed it to my kids and they both got a big kick out of the golf game.