Compaq Portable II Vintage Luggable Computer. What A Cool Part Of Computing History!

[@sziltner]

Boy, that brings back memories. My first ever "portable" computer. It was top of the line in it's day. 👍

[@FarpointFarms]

Certainly was! A 286 luggable? I was still using a C64 when this came out.

[@brantleyrobbins7188]

Ah I love the sounds of old pc's. Brings back memories.

[@FarpointFarms]

I agree- I can hear a sound and picture what era it is from.

[@richiec7602]

Eric, Brings back a lot of memories. I recently retired but when I started my job over 35 years ago, my company had three of these. I remember playing dos games on them when nobody was borrowing them for actual work.

[@FarpointFarms]

How dare they have to use them for working- did the not see you were busy using them--lol

[@FarpointFarms]

They had some cool games for this era. Mostly text, but still fun to play.

[@richiec7602]

Don’t ask me why, but I still have dos 6.2 on floppy disks as well as Windows 3.1. I don’t have a computer to use them on but I have them.

[@paulshakarian3046]

I remember my uncle buying one of these around 1983. This video brought back some neat memories.

[@FarpointFarms]

"portable" should not weigh 50 pounds-- We are spoiled now

[@paulshakarian3046]

I remember his had two floppy drives @@FarpointFarms

[@jamescady723]

I remember these! They were heavy. But they sold well back then! Cool find. Oh my gosh, I remember that game. Played it a lot when I was still in the Army on one of their HP computers. lol. We also had a Trek game that plotted results on an enourmous plotter. This was in 1982.

[@FarpointFarms]

These games were just plain fun- I miss these days- simplier

[@timmiesloan9850]

Bought an old "luggable" for $5 at a thrift store back in the 90's. No hard drive in it, had to scrounge up a DOS disk to get it started. Love seeing this video

[@FarpointFarms]

Glad I could bring back some memories

[@hatchetjackphillips]

Blast from the past. I remember our computer lab at my HS, had a couple of Radio Shack TRS 80’s.

[@FarpointFarms]

Oregon Trail- one of my favorite games from back in the day---Kids today will never know the struggle

[@JD144-]

That’s cool! Old keystroke sound is familiar. Thanks for the video.

[@FarpointFarms]

That sound brings back some great memories

[@JBenedict02]

Man I love these old systems. Have a Kaypro II, VIC-20, and TI 99/4a

[@FarpointFarms]

I had a very rare Kaypro 10 with a 10 meg hard drive. That was really something for Cp/m!

[@richiec7602]

My first computer was a TI 99/4A. Loved writing basic for it and saving the programs to a cassette tape.

[@JBenedict02]

@@FarpointFarms This one has been very stubborn when trying to get it to work haha. Been messing with it for about 3 years now. One day!

[@JBenedict02]

@@richiec7602 this one I got from a guy whose dad bought it new and it sat in their attic for over 30 years. Free too!

[@Swamp-Fox]

Very cool! I sort of miss those days sometimes!

[@FarpointFarms]

You and me both!

[@marknesselhaus4376]

I love older computers. This one reminds me of my KAYPRO II that I had many several years ago ;-)

[@FarpointFarms]

Glad that I could bring back some memories

[@FarpointFarms]

I had a Kaypro 10! Rare to see a Cp/m computer with a 10 meg harddrive!!

[@erics902]

My gosh! Haven't seen one in many, many years.

[@FarpointFarms]

It's been a while for me as well. Cool to see people still hanging on to these!

[@Somewhere-In-Canada]

Wow. It looks like the first computer I used in my 4th year at RRMC but without a hard drive, just 5 1/4 floppies back then in '83 (10 pages/floppy). Wordstar 2000? was the program and it was a pain compared to today lol. I did all my essays on a computer like this. There were only two for all of us and I was the only one to use them. Before this computer we all were taught basic and running programs on ye olde punch cards and readers. Like lighting fires with sticks back then with computers compared to just flipping a switch today.

[@FarpointFarms]

Great analogy of starting a fire to this computer-

[@user-wj9xq7ig2v]

Idk who was in charge of the letter N production that day but he sure was heavy on the bromine in the mix.

[@FarpointFarms]

Ha! Yup, that guy must have held a button too long when mixing the paint.

[@dan3a]

Have one! It's a really cool machine, unfortunately the hdd seems to have a short on the power rails, still need to troubleshoot that, also CF modded it and put a 3.5" drive

[@FarpointFarms]

That was my plan for this one, but I just got tired of tearing into it. Maybe I'll get a Tandy 1000 HX and mess with it instead.

[@screamengine]

Great old boxes that aged very well. But I can't help wonder what is so special about that N key? Was it touched the most? The least? Did someone have sunblock on and touched every key but the N? Is it the sacred key that, if pressed in the right sequence, unveils the universal primordial fabric of all matter? Do tell the story of the N key. :)

[@FarpointFarms]

I wish I knew! I was surprised for sure.

[@johnkelley6278]

Had a Tandy similar to the one you have . I remember it said Ram Two on it . Whatever that means!

[@FarpointFarms]

Loved all things Radio Shack related!

[@jurban611]

I have a couple of the "hard" floppy disks from middle school. My kids ask what it was for?😂

[@FarpointFarms]

Kids--- they will never know the struggles

[@jeffgarner3178]

That was my first computer but hard too see the monitor as my eyes were getting older.

[@FarpointFarms]

The screen is so small- even with my "cheater" glasses it is hard to see

[@dannydivine7699]

What was that old machine I hooked up to an old b&w tv? An "epson" or something, I never got a commodore, but much later on I did have one of the IBM versions of that machine, but we had hot rodded it, and I have no idea what board and components we put in that old case. My first real working pc was a 286 with a meg of ram, and I wanna say a 20 meg hard drive, cost like almost 4k back in the day

[@FarpointFarms]

Back in the IBM XT era. You really could squease out a lot with additional cards. Mine had a ''Tiny 286" card that boosted it to a whopping 6mhz!! 640K ram, and a 20 meg hard drive. Those were the days!

[@flukep1228]

I got a kaypro 2 computer that looks just like that one but in a blue case. Don't uses it much but was my first computer.

[@FarpointFarms]

It is kinda cool that you still have your first computer.

[@Alpha5119]

So cool

[@FarpointFarms]

My first IBM type computer was a genuine IBM XT that was very close in specs to this one. I was WAY behind the curve with computers as I didn't get the IBM until 1993 !!

[@Alpha5119]

I got i think was an IBM computer also around 1994 also got a commodore 128 in the same garage sale for like 10 bucks. I know I still got the commodore. Pretty sure I have the monochrome computer too at my brothers house. I bought them late to get them cheap lol

[@jjasea]

My father in law has one

[@FarpointFarms]

Great to hear that they are still out there!