Year: 2001-2004 Initial Price: $2600 Noritsu CT-1 is basically a front self service customer oriented product that has been used in the mini foto labs. It is produced by Noritsu Koki Co.,LTD. Japan Model: CT-1 Serial No. 20461951 The idea behind the machine is that you can go with your pictures on any support (Floppy…
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Schneider Euro PC
YEAR: 1988 Initial Price: 1800,- DEM $1058 The PC was an MS-DOS-based home computer of the Schneider computer division. The motherboard was installed in the keyboard housing. Almost same hardware was also packed in the Sinclair PC200 and Amstrad PC20. There seemed to be some kind of minor rush to get these “desktop” PCs into…
OLIVETTI PHILOS 33 B/N
Year 1992 Initial price: $3855 In 1992 Olivetti got on the market seven notebooks with the dimensions of a sheet of letterhead paper. The Philos line. Philos Model 33 is offered two versions, B / N and Color. The built-in microphone and speaker lets you use it as a digital audio recorder. The PCMCIA…
Hewlett&Packard Omnibook 800CT
Year: 1995 Initial Price: $2499 (Quelle 1996 etidion) Hisotry: The first of its series was the Omnibook 300. At the time of its introduction in 1993, the HP Omnibook 300 was the smallest and lightest PC on the market to feature a full-size keyboard and full VGA (video graphics array) screen. It weighed only…
IBM Displaywriter System
YEAR: 1980 INITIAL PRICE: US$7,895 (equivalent to $23,449 in 2017) THIS COMPUTER HAS BEEN GIVEN TO ME IN A VERY BAD CONDITION. CURRENTLY WORKING ON RESTORING, I WILL POST THE BEFORE AND AFTER PICTURES HERE AND ALSO THE LINK TO THE RESTORATION BLOG. THE PICTURES ARE FROM THE WEB – SOON TO UPLOAD THE REAL ONES…
Psion Series 3A
YEAR: 1993 Initial Price: $ 899 The Psion 3a (1993) is part of a range of personal digital assistants made by PSION PLC. Manufacture of Psion 3a was discontinued in 1998 with the 3s version shortly after the launch of the Psion Series 5 (a Psion 4 does not exist, due to Psion’s concern…
Toshiba Libretto 50CT
Year: 1997 Initial Price: $1999 The Libretto was a line of subnotebook computers designed and produced by Toshiba. The line was distinguished by its combination of functionality and small size, squeezing a full Windows PC into a device the size of a paperback book. Intel Pentium 75 MHz, 16 MB RAM (32 MB max.), 810 MB hard disk, 6.1-inch TFT display (Wikipedia) Libretto machines are always fascinating because its…
IBM Personal System 1 model 2011
YEAR: 1990 INITIAL PRICE: $2,199 about $4,200 in 2018 The IBM PS/1 is a brand for a line of personal computers that marked IBM‘s return to the home market in 1990, five years after the IBM PCjr. It was replaced by the IBM Aptiva in September 1994. The original PS/1 (Model 2011), based on a 10 MHz Intel 80286 CPU, was designed to be easy to set…
Amstrad ALT-286
Year: 1989 Initial Price: $ 2600 The Amstrad ALT-286 is a very nice machine, its a mix between the TOSHIBA T3100/20 and the SHARP PC-4500. It shares same technology like the two mentioned above but the display its superior due to the fact it came on the market almost 3 years after the Toshiba…
Fujitsu Stylistic 2300
YEAR: 1996 INITIAL PRICE: $2900 -$3400 (depends on the version) Today’s tablet PCs are very popular and there is no age for consumers, both young ones and older generations use them. The highest trend seems to be positive even in 2018. There are numerous devices like Asus Transformers, Microsoft Surface, Lenovo`s Yoga series etc….
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