incredibly crappy laptop from 1985

There's a pc recycling thing happening in my city this weekend and it's a great excuse to get rid of the bunch of dying and faded CRT monitors and computer cases that they normally charge like $10-$20 each to dump. In doing so I happened to come across our Ericsson Portable PC. This puppy was first released in 1985 and rocks the following specs '4.77 MHz processor and 256-512 kB of RAM' and it took the kind of floppy disks that were actually bendable and floppy.

This is a picture of one, not ours, but its identical even down to the crayon looking smudges that give you the idea some kids gave it one hell of a work out before it found its way to the 'pc museum'

Anyway fuck nostalgia. I searched on ebay and there's nothing for the "EPPC". Anyone know if this would be old and obscure enough to be worth some money these days? Where can I go to find out?

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I'm not into coding and I've got computers that...aren't 24 years old that I could code on if I wanted to.

Sell it to you for $30 (not including shipping)?

LOL. We used to have something a little more modern. Essentially a word processor, wish I still had it.

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did you copy and paste that orrr?

I would buy this from you as a curiosity, for playing old text adventures and such, but I think the international shipping would kill it.

Financially I mean

Yeah dude 8kg. There's no point even looking that up, it's not going to be cheap unless there is some loophole with the exchange rate but even still - 8 goddamned kilograms.

Do you know if there is some sort of by sea option that takes 2 months but only costs like $10?

Short answer: no.

Anything like that you can emulate easily on today's computers.

  On 8/14/2009 at 5:36 PM, chenGOD said:

Short answer: no.

Anything like that you can emulate easily on today's computers.

DOSBOX is far from being 100% complete as far as functionality is concerned.

I can run the original Doom and even old old old games like 3-Demon or Bouncing Babies, but not WordPerfect 4.2 or Lotus 1-2-3.

  On 8/14/2009 at 5:36 PM, chenGOD said:

Short answer: no.

Anything like that you can emulate easily on today's computers.

While my particular pc may be worthless I disagree with the idea that any hardware or o/s that can be emulated is devalued because of it. Sure, I guess in the case of something more recent like nintendo 64 then this would be true but when you have stuff as old as the EPPC I would've thought some sort of collector, rarity, or enthusiast value would come into play.

BUY OLD COMPUTER

GET LAID TONIGHT

what the hell is it? none of the images work.

is it this one?

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  On 8/15/2009 at 4:41 AM, Rabid said:

BUY OLD COMPUTER

 

GET LAID TONIGHT

3. ??????

4. PROFIT!

  On 8/15/2009 at 12:20 AM, my usernames always really suck said:

  On 8/14/2009 at 5:36 PM, chenGOD said:

Short answer: no.

Anything like that you can emulate easily on today's computers.

 

DOSBOX is far from being 100% complete as far as functionality is concerned.

 

I can run the original Doom and even old old old games like 3-Demon or Bouncing Babies, but not WordPerfect 4.2 or Lotus 1-2-3.

YOU can run Lotus 1-2-3 on a symbian handheld under emulation:

http://www.nb-info.co.uk/xtminfo.htm

And I don't want to say for sure, but I would imagine it's entirely possible under bochs: http://bochs.sourceforge.net/

you should do some installation with it like paint it or turn it into something

I has just bought brand news laptop to run internet

i got this coz it was called dragon