A Pocketful of Portables - PortaFest 2024

[@MrKurtHaeusler]

Ahh thats what RetroBytes looks like! The voice is immediately recognizable!

[@johnburns5424]

I have Sharp PC-1211 and printer as well. Bought from Tandy in Tottenham Court Road when it came out and programmed it to do spherical trigonometry for marine navigation when I used to drive ships for a living.

[@TheStevenWhiting]

My dad had the Psion Organiser 2 from his work at BT. He'd sit for hours using it.

[@TheStevenWhiting]

Put them in metal boxes with that fire foam stuff that pops when fire touches it.

[@jamesdecross1035]

I wonder if that strange coating everything electronic once got about twenty years ago was a glue and silicone powder?

[@philiprowney]

I didn't see single Palm Pilot in the first 12 minutes, it's as if history has been re-written by the winners. [ shows at least 4 Apple products ]

[@belstar1128]

not retro enough fir the channel ? it came out after 1990

[@Curt_Sampson]

I'm confused about the Dulmont Magnum being "the first truly portable computer with battery power." The earlier Epson HC-20 (HX-20 outside Japan) was unquestionably smaller, lighter, and ran longer on batteries. What makes it not a "computer"? As for the size of the Osborn's floppy diskettes, sheesh, kids these days. Those 5.25" ones are the _mini_ floppies; the regular size ones were 8".

[@eliotmansfield]

No Olivetti M10?