Anyone ever seen one of these?

[HIS-MOTHER]

I was at the Field Museum yesterday with my daughter and inside one of the old display exhibits I noticed this laptop/ portable PC and was thinking this should be on a display of it's own. It was made by Zentih but I could not get close enough to get a model #. Kinda looks like a boombox style case with the strap and all.

 

That keyboard is actually part of the unit and folds down.

 

I'm thinking 100Mhz cpu and 16-32 mb Ram ?

[DougK94]

http://www.thepcmuseum.net/details.php?RECORD_KEY%28museum%29=id&id(museum)=197

 

http://www.zenithdatasystems.de/zfl171en.htm

 

This might be it

[HIS-MOTHER]

Clock speed 4.77 MHz. LMAO! 256kb ram! funny. I would have thought it to be late 70's early 80's

 

Good find Doug.

[DougK94]

It just shows how far computers have advanced in such a short time.

[Todd Holley]

I was reading a CPU magazine a few days ago and was thinking the same thing.

[DougK94]

When I started in IT, this is what we had at work.....

 

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP3168.html

[HypedGaming]

Ouch, try working with that now days.. I wouldn't want to.. haha.

[adamnp]

I still have a working IBM PJ JR 640k display with EGA graphics, a double sided, double density 5 1/4 floppy, a 300 baud modem (That cost me like 800$) and loads of fun playing frogger!

 

haha

 

Still runs to this day though

[Defcon|Rich]

I'm with you guys there. My first "PC" was a C64 with a cassette tape drive for storage..

 

I once coded a simple pong game from scratch on it which took 3 months and many, many hours.. This was back in the day when you had to build a game if you wanted to play one.. The kids today have no idea how easy they have it

[DougK94]

I still have my old C64 packed away in a box somewhere around here LOL

[Defcon|Rich]

We better stop now my old friend, We are starting to show our ages..

[DougK94]

True... but the worse part was I graduated from high school about 7 or 8 years before I bought that LOL

[DougK94]

OLD FRIEND???? I just realized you said that. You are not that far behind me in age I should smack you with my cane

[Defcon|Rich]

True... but the worse part was I graduated from high school about 7 or 8 years before I bought that LOL

 

My wife mentioned the other day that this year we've been out of school for 20 years now.. That makes me feel old But then again you and I'm pretty sure Adam both have a few years on me so it's all good

[DougK94]

30 years for me