What was the first laptop you owned or uesd?

[LogDog75]

Mine was a Toshiba. It was 1995 and I deployed to Zagreb, Croatia with my medical unit. My unit gave a Toshiba laptop computer with a CD drive. Closed, it was about four inches thick as well as being heavy. I had never used a laptop before so it was interesting to play with. Having a CD drive was useful in that one of our medical technicians had an AF medical CD program that had programmed questions and answers in over a dozen languages. We saw not only American troops but UN troops from countries like Malaysia and Indonesia where English wasn't common.

I used the laptop to control our medical inventory, order/receive supplies from the depot in Germany, and make/complete forms for use with other agencies in the area.

[claudette]

1. An

Apple G4. I still have it as a memento. I now have a Mac Mini

[Pris]

2. A clamshell Mac

[Silent Type]

3. Radio Shack 286 around 1989. That and printer was close to $2,000 and sucked compared

to hardware and apps nowadays.

[Nictuku]

4. Toshiba

This was pre-windows. It booted from a DOS disc. The screen had amber letters on a black background. I remember playing Zork on it. For hours and hours. It seemed very durable. I think I actually still have it somewhere.

[cachukis]

15. Toshiba 1989. Amber letters. Black background.

DOS. But first windows. You could open three, but would crash often.
Sold a tax service on a cd. With a modem attached could upload invoices.
They sent us cds to update.
Taught us Boolean Logic. I can still find almost anything with queries.
286 with extended RAM.

[eppur_se_muova]

5. Macintosh PowerBook 170. Monochrome active-matrix screen (kinda low res).

9.8" monochrome LCD
Graphics 640×400

25 MHz 68030 w/68882 FPU. When I bought it, it was the fastest computer in our lab !

Featured the brand new System 7.0.1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_170

[AllaN01Bear]

6. dell with windows vi$ta . 4 hard drive failures , staples and dell wouldnt back their work . did

finaly make things correet , but on the final hd crash. i stored the blankedy blank blank thing and never used it since . have 2 old funtioning apple laptops and a pc with fidora linux.

[Ocelot II]

7. An early Mac Powerbook, don't remember which model.

[Figarosmom]

8. I dont remember

But I won it on line from a computer and mouse site. Won the mouse too, but never used it because it was really big.

[fargone]

9. Never had a laptop and still don't

[JoseBalow]

10. My first was an old Mattel

[True Dough]

13. I remember that model!

It wasn't much good for creating resumes though.

[FirstLight]

11. I don't know what make it was ..1995-96

My dad got it for me as a gift for finishing community college. Had only b/w graphics, windows 95

That's why I get so pissed when people ask me if I know how to use Microsoft office now LOL. I'm like, "...don't quote the old magic to me witch, I was there when it was written..."

[Drum]

12. My Toshiba Satellite, in the early 1990s.

☺️

[True Dough]

14. Similar to you, OP

Don't recall the exact year, but it would have been the early to mid-'90s. It was a Toshiba. I got at least 5.5 years out of it. Then purchased another Toshiba. Didn't quite make it to the 5-year mark with that one. Went back to Best Buy and realized that Toshiba had really cheapened their products by then, so I started switching brands at that point. And, to be honest, I found very little satisfaction after that. Most of them only lasted 4 or 5 years before really slowing down, which is frustrating.

My aunt, who, like me, spends a lot of her time on her laptop, had a gaming model that lasted her 9 years. So I decided to give that a try and bought, at considerably higher cost, an Asus Rog Strix last August. Unfortunately, it's been buggy and I had to send it in for repair (at least under warranty).

It's become difficult to find a quality product. Maybe I've just been unlucky.

[Nittersing]

16. Not sure - maybe one of the early ThinkPads?

All I remember is that I loved that trackball in the middle of the keyboard. I got quite good at using it and was sad when it wasn't widely adapted.

[sinkingfeeling]

17. IBM ThinkPad