[mlmr]

$600, and it's yours. <|:)~


What on earth is that thing??

[martin_fierro]

That, my dear, is the now-ancient Visual Commuter, kind of a really heavy early laptop with crappy little optional portable screen. It ran on DOS 2.11, had two 360K floppy drives (hard drive? Whazzat?), an 8088 processor running at a whopping 4.77 MHz, and a mind-boggling 512K of RAM.

This "bombshell" of 1986 came bundled with a (not-so-portable) monochrome amber monitor (graphics? whazzat?) and daisy wheel printer.

I actually had to put several layers of tinfoil and some distance between the CPU unit and monitor to prevent the latter's magnetic field from interfering with the floppy drives.

Couldn't have made it through grad school without it.