Something Old, Something New
What’s this? My Phoebe has a new stand?
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An “aerial” view:
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Nah, not a new stand. Just my new laptop on my old one. Here they are, opened up:
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The Zenith saw me through my grad studies at UC San Diego in 1989 / 90, I’d bought it secondhand from my housemate. It’s a monster, with two floppy disks that were quite cleverly positioned inside the laptop (pictures in a while), but only a 4.77mHz processor! Nevertheless, it saw me through my grad studies and I still have it today, waiting for the day there’s a computer museum I can donate it to.
Anyway, here are a couple of pictures of the Zenith.
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It looks almost like a desktop, doesn’t it?
And here’s why I said the two floppy disk slots are quite cleverly positioned inside the laptop:
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They are well protected when the laptop is closed, unlike other laptops that have the floppy disk drives outside.
Disk drives – these days, laptops where got disk drives? Aiyoh, my Zenith is really so dated.
