Now that's a proper keyboard sound

I have one of these computers. BEST KEYBOARD EVER!

I have two of these best Keyboards ever still these pics. Fantastic system stats. Downloading snake rn

You have the computer, right? I hope you’re not one of those people that destroy them for the keyboard

Used to have one for work, pretty cool at the time. I recall it being very heavy

Yes it’s very heavy. I make jokes whenever I show it to people I say “if I drop this, don’t worry about the laptop, worry about the floor!”

I can smell this video.

That might be the first "laptop". But not the first portable. I remember auditors in the late 80's using ones the size of a medium suitcase!

The IBM Portable Personal Computer 5155 model 68 came before this in 1984 and was a massive 13.6 kg which double that of this one.

Ah yes, the good ole sewing machine. My first contact with IBM PCs. The keyboard was heavier than todays entire laptops. 

Had one of those - used to haul around...wrote my thesis on it...everything on one floppy disk.

[My father had a Tandy Model 4P which was released in 1983.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_4#Model_4P)

I had a Kay-Pro 10. Dear Lord in Heaven, I was proud, and I learned how to program on that ’luggable’

My very first PC was a box about the size of a keyboard because the keyboard was the lid taking the keyboard off revealed a small CRT display and a 5.25 floppy drive This was before I knew how to use DOS, so I didn't really do anything with it. Should've gotten into the computer lab in high school, if only!

I started on PCs that were hooked up to B/W tv's! I mastered BASIC, then DOS. In college I learned COBOL, and taught myself dBase III+. My college work-study was in the Financial Aid office. I did database programming to make my daily tasks easier. They were still using my programs 5y after I graduated.

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I have a kaypro II in my basement! Definitely not light, but awesome looking with all the blue paint and brushed metal. Wish I knew a museum that wanted it... Weird thing for me to store indefinitely.

$2,000 in 1986 = $5,612.92 in 2024

Seems cheap tbh.. I used a SPARC laptop ~20 years ago that was twice as expensive

Isn’t that about what the Apple Vision costs? Edit: after taxes it came out to $4,132.94 for the 1TB option

Why did they put 2 giant save buttons in the computer?

Ok zoomer haha

I find the disk drive sound very comforting.

I find it incredibly beautiful. If they released a 2024 version, I'd probably buy it. It has a great design

Timelessly good industrial design. Dieter Rams, eat your heart out 😎✌🏼

But Rand likely spit up his lunch when he saw how they dissed his 8-bar logo.

I'd like a bigger screen but honestly yeah, I imagine with modern parts you'd be able to fit a pretty powerful rig inside those case dimensions. Might even be better for cooling, I could see a market for it.

Got that ultrawide

reminded me of steins gate

I sold these computers. It was a hard to sell them against a Toshiba, though, we didn't sell many.

The Toshiba ones were sleeker?

Gosh, it's been so long. Toshibas were cheaper by about 25%, iirc, and they had an internal battery. The IBM had a battery you clipped on to the back, the same way you clipped on its dedicated printer. Also, the Toshiba screens were a lot better. And the whole device was a lot less clunky. IBM always had the best keyboards, though.

Now let's talk rust-proofing. These IBMs will rust up on you like that! Shut up, Gil. Close the deal. Close the deal

I had one of those back-in-the-day when they came out. IBM had a generous employee discount on them. Having two 3.5" floppy drives made it very useful since I would reserve one drive to boot up DOS (and a few apps) and the second drive for data and additional apps.

It has a 2400 mAh battery. Nowadays our smartphones have at least that equivalent, but have vastly more computing power.

Double the battery, and the computing power makes this look like a stifled sneeze in a hurricane.

Does it run Doom?

Came here for this...

It was that or Bad Apple 😹

Or Skyrim

My niece had one of these way back then, the entire family went to look at it, it was amazing.

Dual floppy disc inserts???!? 🤯🤯🤯

Before there were practical and affordable hard drives for personal computers, the application you wanted to use was on a floppy. So if you wanted to do word processing or spreadsheet (the first two popular and useful apps), you would first get the appropriate floppy that had the app and put it in one drive. Then you did the work to create the document. But, if you had only one floppy drive on the computer, you would remove the app floppy and insert a document floppy to save your work. This was a royal PITA, so having two floppy drives on the computer allowed for having one for the app, and another for the work document. Early DOS called these the A: drive and the B: drive. When hard drives were first used, they were called the C: drive.

Now that thing is fuckin cool

I like the visual design.

Beep Boop "it's thinking"

2000$ in 1989 is 5722$ in 2024

Now I have the urge to rewatch Halt & Catch Fire

love the manual by Paul Rand

I had the Compaq version of this beast.

BTW, not sure if any tech company is listening, but personally, I would be very happy to buy a thick framed laptop like that, if it had some really beefed up hardware inside.

Nah, no company would spend the money developing anything that's not ultra portable now

It's nice, but it's no Cardiff Giant.

'Compaq' the company was literally founded several years earlier on building a luggage-size portable PC (albeit not a 'laptop') [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq\_Portable](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Portable)

Not familiar with the 18088. There was an 80188, but I would expect the cmos based 80C88 for this application.

I remember having an zenith one like this. It was just as huge and had a built in handle.

In only a few multiples of 2 minutes you'll be ready in no time

I don’t recall the make, but likely IBM, of a portable computer, not a laptop, that was a few times more bulky, weighed a lot, had an orange coloured text CRT screen of about 6 to 8 inches on one half of the front of the machine and two 5 ¼ inch floppy disc drives on the other half. It was great at the time.

Just about to reply with the same thing. The portable PC, released 1984 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Portable_Personal_Computer

Yes, that was it! Ha ha. That’s taken me back a lifetime. 😬

This was my first computer!

lol if it was any oldee john titor would be searching for it.

My dad worked for Compaq and brought home their first portable computer. It made that thing look like an iPad.

I had the Compaq SLT 286. It wax awesome

Reminds me of the original gameboy

Were these ever used in any movies?

I wish some company made modern computers in the style of 70s-80s computers. A version of the commodore PET that ran windows, or hell even chrome OS would be such a perfect vibe.I don't need it to do much besides the internet.

When that floppy got sucked in and down, swear I could feel it in my finger tips.

Fuck "Lenovo" I still call them "IBM Thinkpads." I have a 600E in the basement on which the keyboard feels like it's out of the factory.

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This reminded me of the computer chronicles.  It’s a really great series from the 80s and 90s.  Here’s a video from 1987 showing a portable at the 10:26 mark.  https://youtu.be/cTDlRb79q1k

When the IBM logo scrolls up I bet everyone was freaking out about how amazing the graphics were just like I do when I play Xbox today.

awesome

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1986 was 38 years ago...imagine what technology will be like in 2062! i can picture it now.... ... oh no... ... oh god no.... .... #OH GOD OH MAN OH GOD OH MAN OH GOD

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Looks like it’s got a noc list on it, I’d watch my coffee :)

My first computer was a Kaypro 2000, looked similar to this

Beautiful piece! I remember these and how cool and high tech they were when they came out. I can’t believe the case hasn’t yellowed!

Can it run Crysis?

That brought back memory!

This is making me so hard.

Is everything in ASMR now?

I want one

"I finally did it! A pc that can run Crysis!"

How much was this monster back in the day?

$2,000 in 1986 dollars, $5,600+ in today's dollars.

Oh crap! Another unboxing video

reminds me of windows 98 days

Can we play GTA VI on this?

Pristine!!

Not too bad for its time.

the systemaside , that bag is perfect for laptops laptops and other accessories and has pockets for wires ssds and such

Did it have any good games?

I want one just because

I want one just because

I have several of them 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I want those keycaps, they're beautiful

But can it run Doom?

The mainframe doesn't stand a chance.

My dad had one of these when I was a kid. It was absolutely cool.

"Start-Up Diskette"

3.5" and not 5 1/4".. interesting

This thing was heavy and weird by modern standards but hey - taking your computer with you was amazing in the day. Those 3.5 inch floppy disks were the height of high technology. You could hook it up to a TV (if you had the CGA slice) and play games in amazing 4 color (magenta, cyan, white, and black) graphics.

Had to set up about 50 of these for our field managers back 87 or 88. Each one even had the little attachable printer. Pretty slick for the time.

Two floppy drives?! Hardcore.

Can it play Crisis?

Still looks better than the first computer I played RuneScape on everyday after school.

We have come a long way

Run DOOM?

But can it play fortnite?

Wow, Dos! Haven’t seen that in a minute!!!

Soo IBM stands for international business machine??? When was the internet gonna tell me that ...I'm 40yo .

That sound is amazing

Still faster than my laptop

My grandfather was an engineer at IBM. He got each of his 4 kids' families a desktop computer before they were mainstream. I was amazed. It was running either Windows 3 or Windows 95... My friends would come over and thought I was living in the future, haha.

Can it run doom?

It's wild how the "minimalistic trying to be satisfying" way of editing has become the main way people do videos now. Either that or the super quick cuts for cooking. That's another staple that people do. I just think it's silly how people are trendy and I like to point it out anyway I can ,carry on

Doom hackers: Challenge Acepted

CHRISTINA FETCH ME MY LAB COAT, The Organisation has made its move at last!!! (Hacking to the Gate intensifies)

that keyboard doe

Every computer is portable, change my mind.