OK, I can get by on the two that I have.
Since you know nobody there in 1913 you take a big risk of being robbed by someone who knows what you have. Hey, device from the future. Let’s befriend this guy until we know how to turn it on and do a search. Password? No one knows this guy, let’s persuade him to tell us the password. What you have is enormously valuable to someone who has a grasp of what you have and who you are. You could disappear instead of being paid.
It would be akin to showing up in desert with a tank of water and trying to sell it to thirsty dying people, they’d just take it.
Please elaborate on what you mean by “search.”
Who would know what I have? I’m catching a hansom straight to Burlington House as soon as I arrive, and I’m not leaving there until I’ve sold the thing. I’m not going to be selling it on the street, and I do know my way around London somewhat - well, enough to find Picadilly, anyway.
I think you have a way mistaken idea of the level of barbarity of Edwardian scientists.
Not if they want any hope of learning to use the damn thing - and they have no idea I’m disappearing in six days, do they?
Maybe in Bartertown. This is London, 1913. If you really think the Royal Society is going to “disappear” me, you’re hopelessly paranoid.
Searching the computers database for information.
And you under estimate the potential of greed and power in what you have would represent. So you enter the society and show off your nifty item. A group of them realizes what you have is a game changer to the global power structure. Are they going to pay you a fortune for it or want you to donate it to the betterment of mankind? When you don’t donate it I’d say there is a good chance that they don’t let you leave and they become the Illuminati. They can get away with this and still appear to be an outwardly noble foundation because no one ever would miss you in 1913 and would most likely figure that you came from the future to do harm or “gasp” make a huge profit off of changing the future. The noble thing would be to get rid of you and let the people of 1913 decide there own fate.
A Pentax Spotmatic 35mm SLR camera, a hundred rolls of color film, and an instruction sheet about how to process color in a home darkroom.
Hopelessly paranoid it is, then.
It is one of the Royal Society’s main functions to spend money on the advancement of Science. They’re not going to baulk at my asking price (which is not going to be in the millions. But it will be in gold.)
Plus I’ll make it damn clear to them that only paying me up front also gets them access to the encrypted porn on the HD. That’ll convince them.
Please elaborate on what you mean by “computer’s databases” and how you think they’d have any concept that they could do that.
Can I tape together my 200/300 level Intro to Solid State Physics, Relativity and Quantum Physics books? They don’t need power, they’ve got examples and really I’m never going to open them again anyway.
I own my great uncle’s 1901 Geography Text Book. To say it’s a bit Eurocentric would be an understatement. Quite a hoot to read.
I don’t have anything worth a damn now (that would fit in a DeLorian), much less 101 years ago.
Well you would teach them how to do a search of course. They could learn to search by position, by the number of partners, by the mix of the couples and then let their imagination go on from there. You are crafty, they will be so obsessed with your advanced porn device that they wouldn’t even notice (or care) when you left the building. They will be like “please leave us alone now so that we can study this in private”.
And the ‘one item’ part as well.
I’m torn. On the one hand, I’ve got a 1982-vintage Von Nostrand’s scientific encyclopedia, which is about the size of a small tombstone, and contains a lot of scientific knowledge that they didn’t know in 1913.
On the other hand, I’ve got a copy of Barbara Tuchman’s The Guns of August, which I’d bet would be a sure bestseller in 1913.
A 1970s era pachinko machine. It was a novelty that hadn’t been invented yet, and is an enormously addictive game. It’s completely mechanical, and requires no power, unless you want to run the lights for show. You can duplicate all the parts with 1913 technology, using wood, metal, glass and Bakelite (the first plastic, invented in 1907).
The first pachinko machine was invented in the 1920s, so I think people in 1913 would be ready for the technology, and mine would have a big advantage over the early ones (actually the styles up through the 1950s), in that the marbles are self-feeding, and also a mechanism for putting them back into the top tray, so you don’t need to keep stopping to dump the marbles back into the top.
Why on Earth would I do that before I got paid?
For the betterment of mankind! Just think where porn will have advanced by the time you got back.
Sounds a lot like my 7th grade geography textbook.
If the OP was tasking me with bettering mankind, I’d do that. The OP has tasked me with making more money than anyone else, so that’s what try and I’ll do.
You must not know a lot about historical porn. There is nothing new under the sun.
Holodeck porn. It’s been hinted at by the OP. With your noble efforts and self enrichment in 1913 you could help development many new technologies. The Royal society would know that TV screens were possible for one and they would know that talking (or moaning) movies was feasible and enjoyable. 
Holodecks are fantasy rooms that violate the laws of physics.
That’s exactly what I’d be doing by leaving them the resource. Well, until the HD dies, which gives them probably a year or two at most. My laptop isn’t new.
Just how backwards do you think 1913 was in terms of technology? Of course they knew TV screens were possible, they were invented in the previous century. And they were no strangers to moving pictures, or movies with sound (even if the sound was on a separate disk)