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my first laptop was a Toshiba 1100 with 2 3.5" floppy drives, and that was early 1987...by 1989 I was working on the design team for Compaq Computer Corp developing the first cigarbox laptop, a turkey called the LTE.....and my first real computer was in 1965, an analog called a MK1-A gun fire control computer, developed and used in WWII. A massive electromechanical monster that computed with some degree of accuracy 38 variables. It worked pretty well as we could drop 5" shells into a 50 yard radius at 5-7 miles range while the ship was in motion....we could shoot 15 miles but not so accurate....my first mainframe experience was 1984 on an IBM 4381......and an HP 3000 too....and they didn't talk to each other....what fun that was....my first electronic computer was in 1978, a Xerox 820 with twin 8" drives and 64k of computing power!