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  "path": "/threads/the-computer-history-thread.2634498/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-26T07:12:14.000Z",
  "site": "https://forums.anandtech.com",
  "tags": [
    "OT Discussion Club",
    "@IBMJunkman",
    "Osborne 1",
    "Osborne!",
    "from a thrift store",
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  "textContent": "Share your computer history lore! Memories, finds, collector's items, etc. @IBMJunkman this means YOU!!\n\nI'm not much of a collector, but from time to time, I'll snag a unique piece of computer history for my very small hardware collection & recently came across a good-quality Osborne 1, which is considered to be the first \"laptop\" aka \"luggables\" haha. A brief history: (4 pages)\n\n\n\n###  \n\t\t\t\t\t\tOsborne!\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\nNotebooks. Netbooks. Smartphones. Tablets. In 2011, the default state of personal computing is mobile--traditional desktop PCs are still with us, but they've become the outliers. It wasn't always so. In their earliest days, in fact, PCs weren't primarily deskbound; they were entirely deskbound. The\n\nwww.technologizer.com\n\n\nI had a chance to get a bootable one from a thrift store about 25 years ago for FIVE DOLLARS, but didn't have the room for it at the time & have regretted it ever since! There was no battery & it basically folded up into a metal suitcase, sort of like a sewing machine:\n\n\n\nThese days we have tri-fold phones lol:\n\n\n\nYou boot up the CP/M OS on one 5.25\" floppy & then load the program on the second floppy:\n\n\n\nLaunch price was $1,795 USD, which is about $5,500 in today's money, or like...\n\nRead more",
  "title": "The Computer History thread"
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