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Tandy 102 proto-laptop still alive and beeping after 30 years, complete with AA batteries

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Re: got that beet

Next to my desk there's still my grandfather Olivetti M-24 Tetractys (still working). It's at least from the late sixties, I believe, I really don't know when it was bought.

iI's an electromechanical calculator, and it's not programmable, so it doesn't count as "modern" computer, yet it started to have a "modern" keyboard.

Looking at it churning out a long division is marvellous - you have a glimpse of what would have been Babbage engines...

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