I was once asked to repair a similar Laptop from Olivetti, I said to the owner it will be cheaper and wiser to buy a new one.
I have a much older Desktop PC, It has IBM DOS, speed 5 MHZ With turbo to give 10 MHZ, 64 kB ram, two 5.25 inch floppy drives (for those paper floppies) and an enormous 10 Mb Hard disk, Monitor is Monochrome and it still works.

My first computer was a Kaypro with a CPM operating system, no hard drive, no graphics, monochrome screen (6"), two 5 1/4 floppy drives. This in comparison was very high tech.

Excellent post and a great reminder of where it all started.

My first experience was on a 365 !

Great idea and composition.

Oh nein ... aber ein tolles Foto ist dabei herausgekommen.

Yes, a good subject for the challenge!

ah those days, fits well the subject

Oooo that's interesting Esther. Amazing how things have moved on and I recall working for a company and we were updating the mainframe computer and the side had to be taken out of the building the equipment was so huge. Thanks for the memory jog.

What to say... Sort of technology that really does not last long! This morning I just read about new future network technology called LiFi, where the ambient interior LED light is used for wireless data transfer. The bottom line is, the computers become more powerful all the time, which makes it possible to process even more complex software and data, and all this still seem to develop like there is no end for it.

Who'd have thought you could get nostalgic over an old computer, but you can indeed Esther. I too have kept some old items that would seem archaic almost by today's standards including my Binatone TV game and my Commodore 64 microcomputer! :)

I started with Wang, 2 floppy drives inside, no harddisk. Those were the days....

At least you've got an extra key here ;-)

Great shot, Esther! It is quite amazing how fast computers age; 3 years is considered old by today's standard. This one you photographed is a dinosaur, lol!

Congrats on Explore, Esther :-)