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SammichEater
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05 Sep 2011, 2:23 am

One day I want to build an R-2 unit as my laptop.

Just because I can.

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And I'll have it running Windows 47 Astromech Droid Edition 128-bit


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07 Sep 2011, 8:14 pm

lau wrote:
I have one of these:Image


How about the old Timex-Sinclairs of the early 80s?

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Some of them had a VHF modulator for hooking up to a standard television set as a monitor.

Anyone remember these from way back when?

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17 Sep 2011, 11:57 am

I'd love to get my hands on an IBM Thinkpad 850 or Thinkpad 860. They were RS6000 notebooks that sold for well over $10,000 US when new. PPC architecture running at either 100Mhz for the 850 and 166Mhz for the 860.

Here's an 850:

[img][800:1024]http://i817.photobucket.com/albums/zz93/statmux/Thinkpad%20850%20PPC/TP850_Front1.jpg[/img]

They are quite rare. Original OS choices were AIX, WinNT4, and OS2, of which AIX was the most popular. --Apparently Linux has been ported to these machines as well.


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