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Old 07-08-2010, 01:29 PM
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I had a Colecovision, but I'm not sure that counts. I had a little Timex too which I found totallly useless. But in 1983, I upgraded to a Kaypro II, which was almoost a combination desktop/laptop since it was totally self-contanined. It ran CPM and came with Wordstar, Calcstar and some other stars (software) you could use for real computing. It had 64k (yes, k) of memory, no hard drive, 2 - 5 1/4" floppy drives and a built-in 9" green screen that supported text only - no graphics. I still have the machine along with all the software and documentation. I think it works too! The printer I had had long since bitten the dust.

(I started as a mainframe programmer in 1970, so I've been into computers for a long time)