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I remember having a play with one of those in the late 90s. Could have doubled up as ballast!
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This was the first PC* I ever used - a 'portable' mains-only 6kg slab of the future that came in its own suitcase
As a postgrad in the mid-1980s I shared an office with an eminent visiting professor who used to arrive with the latest in personal computing, the Compaq Portable. At 12.7kg it was no lightweight and the size of a sewing machine:
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This was the first PC* I ever used - a 'portable' mains-only 6kg slab of the future that came in its own suitcase:
*Probably not a true IBM PC clone, but it did run MS-DOS.
[Edit: I pretty futuristic-looking for 1984. I think it shared some external design heritage with Sony/Apple Macs via a design consultancy]