I laugh every time I see pics like this. I remember when my late husband (then-boyfriend) bought his Tandy 8088...I thought it was just a big paperweight!

IBM 350 disk storage unit

IBM 305 RAMAC

We've come a long way, baby!

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"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Chardonnay in one hand - chocolate in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming "WOO HOO, What a Ride!"

I imagine in 30 years the notebook will look equally ancient. I can hear the kids now, "you actually typed into the computer? How lame!".

Yep! My kids laughed at my old manual typewriter. I eventually threw it out, along with my dot matrix printer and thermal scanner!!!

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"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Chardonnay in one hand - chocolate in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming "WOO HOO, What a Ride!"

Your a better person than I, having the ability to dispose of old toys. I kept my 1994 vintage Toshiba laptop computer around for years, even though it wouldn't even boot up anymore. I kept it for two reasons:

1. I'm a packrat, somewhere I have bluejeans from my high school years.
2. I paid over 3k for the thing; the upgraded hard drive (80 vs 40 MB) and vast amount of memory (12 MB) added agreat deal to the cost.

I'm somewhat of a packrat...still have my pep squad uniform from 1972, concert t-shirts from the late 70's and on, but when it comes to bulky items, I've got to draw the line because I've got too much "junk" in my attic already!!!

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"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Chardonnay in one hand - chocolate in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming "WOO HOO, What a Ride!"