1968 Honeywell Briefcase Computer - designed for 2001: A Space Odyssey...

[IcyPeas]

1968 Honeywell Briefcase Computer - designed for Dr. Heywood Floyd in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. It features a keyboard, camera, electronic stylus pen, modem, digital file storage module and display screen - Stanley Kubrick Archive

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[DBoon]

1. like this revolutinary device?

[EYESORE 9001]

5. I had one of those at work in the early '80s

It was roughly the size and weight of a portable sewing machine. It had an amber screen, however. I got a 20 MB ‘hard card’ that plugged into an internal expansion slot. I remember thinking I would never fill that 20 MB card.

[Xipe Totec]

8. Or this one from 1981

[Sancho]

12. I had an Osborne...really cool at the time.

Then I went all out and got an Apple II+ also.

[Bo Zarts]

7. I had a Compaq "portable" too, in the early '80s.

Fit nicely into the nose baggage compartment of a Learjet. Actually, it FILLED the nose baggage hold of a Lear.

[ybbor]

11. My wall mate in the dorm had one

1985.

I had a Casio BASIC calculator.

[intheflow]

19. My mom had one of these and passed it

down to me during my undergrad around 1989. GIANT floppy disks that really flopped!

[PoliticAverse]

2. 2001 technology turned out better than prediction here...

[keithbvadu2]

3. A bargain

[Skittles]

4. pretty cool

I ran a 1969 Honeywell mainframe and it was HUGE.

[hunter]

6. I had a Mitsubishi 286 in 2001

http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/2232/Mitsubishi-MP-286L/

It was a bit smaller than that.

[Xipe Totec]

9. I worked on this one in 1972 - HP 9830A

[yonder]

15. +1 for HP back then, including their quality calculators.

Big fan of RPN here and still have to think twice when using non-RPN.

[edbermac]

10. What about their iPads?

[Dukkha]

13. The Macintosh Portable went to space

The "Portable" was their first laptop debuted in 1989 weighing in at 16 lbs
Introductory price $7,300 ($15,400 today adjusted for inflation)

Seen here performing a zero G floppy disc eject on board the Space Shuttle

[AverageOldGuy]

14. Sinclair ZX-81.

[pecosbob]

16. Gads, they were SO expensive in the early days

It took me until the nineties to be able to afford to build my first PC

[lapfog_1]

17. The mother of all demos

from 1968... SRI

gets going at the 2:00 minute mark.

[Mr.Bill]

18. I used a Radio Shack TRS-80 at work in the early 80s.

We used it to estimate printing jobs. The hard drive was a cassette deck. It actually worked very well.