Toot a photo of a computer that first arrived in the year of your birth!
(Here's mine: the IBM System/360)
Hmmm... this moose has still got a Mac Portable tucked away somewhere, and it may even still work if I rebuild the battery.
As far as the thread topic goes though:
@kjhealy
Do you have one of these? If not, why not?
@conleyjr I don’t have a Mac Portable. It’s an awkward machine in many ways, and a kind of failed dry-run for everything they got right with the PowerBook series that came next. Though it does have a cool ability to put the trackball on the left or right of the keyboard, as you please. I do have my original and still-functional PowerBook 145B, which saw me two thirds of the way through grad school.
@kjhealy I wrote my PhD diss on an Atari 520ST; sadly I didn't keep it.
@ELLIOTTCABLE for me it's the Amstrad MEGA PC
It's no beauty but it gets points for solving "what if people want to play games?" in a totally unhinged way: it has two physical motherboards, a bog standard PC and a Sega Mega Drive.
If you wanted to play games you had to turn the PC off, slide a physical slider over the floppy drive to reveal a mega cassette slot and power it back on in Mega Drive mode
