Over the weekend my girlfriend Alex and I visited her parents and her dad busted out his old KayPro II computer from 1983. From what I can tell its probably the first mobile computing device in existence. The entire computer packs up into some 20 pounds of machined metal disguised as a briefcase when the keyboard is clasped back on to the front.
We took off the hood so I could snap a few shots of the inside and I was blown away at how clean it was. Almost 30 years old and I couldn’t find a single sign of dust build up (likely from the fact that there are no fans blowing air in and out). Clocking in at 2.5MGhz and 64kb of ram this must have been a great little machine back in the day.
Also of interest was the 173k swap floppy disk that could be used for those large wordprocessing tasks or crunching lots of data. haha!
