Posts by Filbert

Tandy 102 proto-laptop still alive and beeping after 30 years, complete with AA batteries

SInclair Z88

I still have the Sinclair Z88 (and spare) that my wife used to write her PhD thesis back in the 19-somethings. However, I don't think she would recommend using an eight line display and memory that would evaporate when the batteries died for such a purpose.

But, they still power up and seem to run...

A history of personal computing in 20 objects part 1

Don't forget the Manchester Baby in 1948

Don't forget the Manchester Baby - the world's first stored program computer built in 1948 (in Manchester)

See, for example, this Wikipedia link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Small-Scale_Experimental_Machine

This is one the Americans never mention :)