[ale] OT - Portable Drive

[lists at serioustechnology.com (Geoffrey)]

Jack Schneider wrote:
> Talk about old, 
> 
> http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL61-f.html
> 
> This was the first "portable" computer I ever saw... I was a online trouble shooter for 
> this machine.  It was serial, could do binary and BCD... 
> 
> Bet I'm older than Geoffery, 
> 
> "You must be older then me and I'm older then dirt... ;)

You might be.  Here's the first computer I worked with:

http://tinyurl.com/2k7lde

Later one of these:

http://tinyurl.com/32sob9

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
  - Benjamin Franklin