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This [^] was my first laptop. Twin 720k floppies, 512k of memory, b&w cga screen. It would run for 5 hours on its battery which was handy because it would take 3 1/2 hours to compile and build a star-trek based computer game I was developing which left me an hour to actually do the coding and testing.
I used to have a 4 1/2 hour train commute from Preston to London each week; down on Monday morning, back on Friday evening - spent the weekend with my wife. This worked perfectly for me for a couple of years.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Am I remembering wrong or did they have a full-sized expansion slot?
I seem to remember trying to get one as our EPROM programmer at the time ran on a dedicated PC card and a big thick cable.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Yes, oddly enough, it did. I never used it and wondered why they bothered!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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OriginalGriff wrote: A top of the range model with EGA monitor (16 colours text, 320x200 graphics in any four colours of your choice from the available 16, and a printer) was US$4,500.
Just to put that in perspective, that's $12,589.15 USD in today's dollars.
Jeremy Falcon
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You can now purchase a usable computer for ~ $200.
But
The one you really want is still >$3000
Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree".
Anonymous
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$3000 wouldn't complete the machine that I really want.
| CPU | $1000 | Intel Core i9-7900 | | Video | $1400 | GeForce Titan Z | | Motherboard | $500 | ASUS Prime X-299 Deluxe | | RAM | $825 | GSkill DDR4 4000 x32GB |
And I haven't even got to the hard drives, power supply, case, or the three 26 inch 4K monitors that I would like. 
I could easily spend over $5000 on a single machine plus video. Now only if I could actually afford it. 
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Here you go:
Raspberry Pi Zero - Raspberry Pi[^]
Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree".
Anonymous
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Way back in 1983 I taught myself GW-Basic on one of these.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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I remember those days well. I was still in gradual school at the time. The original PC had a cassette tape or a floppy drive as options actually. You could also get your choice of CP/M or PC-DOS on it. Once 1-2-3 came out CP/M faded quickly. One amusing thing - the original v1.0 PC-DOS didn't even have directories. That wasn't until v2.0. 
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I remember putting together a 3pc network on those days costing $40,000, and the sales commissions were outrageous, something like 40%. I think they work on about 5-7% these days.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Hi All,
Am stuck at the moment, updating docs for the next revision of a product. They tend to be repetitive (and frankly confusing) so I am completely lost in them, so I
Go & find one of them that came in from a customer, fix it so I can follow the log in steps...then find due to the fact someone could touch mains if they moved the lid shifted the coil of earring cables. Where's their Darwin....
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Just put a crocodile inside so people know not to poking around in there.
signature upgrading ... please wait.
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That's not a bug, it's a feature (if you allow the pun). Did they not tell you that they make insect buzzers?
The user can't update the up: we update it for them (Choice in the CP poll)
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"Coercive and restrictive trade enterprise leads initially to this oligopoly." (6)
Good luck.
Andy B
modified 23-Aug-17 4:20am.
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LabVIEWstuff wrote:
Coercive
and
restrictive
trade
enterprise
leads
looks like a CARTEL to me.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Looks like it's your turn tomorrow then  . Well done!
Andy B
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I am a bit of a security freak when it comes to things like this. Despite my bank and credit card providers telling me about all their wonderful mobile apps, I will never install one, not so much for the number theft, but in view of the possibility of loss or theft of the 'phone. The worst I could suffer is someone buying a bunch of apps from Google Play.
All my financial transactions are done from a specific machine and specific browser in my office. My password wallet is on a different machine, so I just have to remember my logins while I walk across my office. The 'money machine' is an old laptop that is only ever used for this one purpose.
Paranoid? Yes. Neurotic, Possibly.
...but the only person who helps themselves to my money is my wife, and I really don't have a solution to that.  
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The best way to avoid being attacked by a shark is not to pretend to be a seal at the coasts of Australia, South Africa or California.
When all kinds of thieves concentrate on the masses using smartphones, it obviously is much safer not to use smartphones. When most malware targets Windows, it's obviously better to stay out of harm's way and not use Windows.
Blasphemy, I know, but it's always safer to stay out of the mainstream, where most dangers lurk.
The user can't update the up: we update it for them (Choice in the CP poll)
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Chris C-B wrote: Paranoid? Yes.
Not nearly enough if you still own a smartphone 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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There are a few useful functions available on a smart phone - for me maps, and more importantly, nautical charts. I also have a few useful apps I have written myself, so I guess I'll just have to live dangerously.
Note: My paranoia is such that when I bought an Android tablet, I got one that had no sim card slot. In the unlikely event that I want to download something where there is no Wi-Fi, I can use the hot-spot function of - yes, you guessed it - my smartphone. A further indication of my paranoia is that I bought a dual sim smartphone, with one card for just voice and SMS, and the other just for data - which is turned off except when it is (very rarely) needed. The Wi-Fi is usually off too.
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At the airport in Amsterdam there's this sign on each door, telling you that you're not just being tracked over WiFi, but also using Bluetooth.
Having a phone is not a legal requirement 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Well, I keep Wi-Fi off unless I actually need it, and the only time I ever use Bluetooth is for 'hands-free' when I am driving and expecting an important 'phone call. An answer-phone app informs the caller that I am driving, and cannot take their call, and then asks their name , which I can hear over the hands-free speaker, and decide if it is the call I am expecting, and pull over to take it, if so.
How am I doing on the paranoia stakes so far? 
Eddy Vluggen wrote: Having a phone is not a legal requirement.
True, but if I hope to keep all my clients...
I have in the past used my smartphone hotspot and tablet to RDP into a client's server - from the car.
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Chris C-B wrote: Paranoid? Yes. Neurotic, Possibly.
Not compared to this guy.
How I do my Computing[^] by Richard Stallman[^].
Just an excerpt:
"I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see git://git.gnu.org/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it (using konqueror, which won't fetch from other sites in such a situation)."
You still have so much to learn
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