Where's the B drive?

[Spoons]

@CJJ*

Anybody ever seen an Actrix “portable” computer?

No, but I’ve seen a Kaypro. Pretty much as you describe, except for the printer and modem. As recently as 1987, we had a die-hard Kaypro user in our office.

Yes, it was big and heavy. But it had a handle on top, and if you liked carrying a 30-pound suitcase, then this was a machine for you! But it was pretty impressive for its time. It was no laptop, certainly; but it was indeed portable. Nice to look at my current laptop and see how far we’ve come since then.

[jasonh300]

@asterion

My father had a copy of Windows 1.0. I think he tossed it before I was old enough to see it, but I did see a copy of it in the Smithsonian once.

Now that I think about it, the only time I ever used dual floppy drives were the varous types of the Apple II at school. By the time the family had a 286 we used the hard drive for whatever version of DOS it was and Windows 3.0. Sure, we had both sizes of floppy drives in the thing, but they just got used as application drives–no need to boot off them.

I once had to install Windows 3.11 to run under Windows 98 so that I could install Windows 1.xx under 3.11 to run an ancient version of Aldus Pagemaker (before Adobe bought them out) to open a some files on a 5 1/4" floppy drive.