The IBM 5100 portable PC was released in 1975 for $20,000 ( oldcomputers.net/ibm5100.html . The 5100 is the grandfather of the 5150 ( oldcomputers.net/ibm5150.htm )

It still works! Now to try and remember how you load files off Microdrive... there's also a mod my eldest brother did for me to get composite video out. That's the cable snaking off at the top. Note the Psion software starter pack - whatever happened to them?!

Arguably the most important part of the ZX Spectrum was the BASIC programming manual which taught a generation of schoolkids something of the fundamentals of coding.

NOW WHERE THE FRICK IS MY RASPBERRY PI!?

Not the first computer I ever used (I think that would be my brother's KIM1), but this was the first computer we had in the house (see below).

Old Machine interfaces found at The Black Hole, an amazing industrial surplus store.

Old Machine interfaces found at The Black Hole, an amazing industrial surplus store.

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Old Machine interfaces found at The Black Hole, an amazing industrial surplus store.

It's so old that it's an event when it's on. So much of an event that I had to put spinning warning lights beside it to show how important it truly was.

You can see that the printer closes up nicely, but the paper roll has to be detached.

We had one of these.

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Old Machine interfaces found at The Black Hole, an amazing industrial surplus store.

Old Machine interfaces found at The Black Hole, an amazing industrial surplus store.

Home-made computer Top Trump-style cards from... oooh guess the year... this is pre-ZX Spectrum and the Apple /// should be a clue.

The only one of these I ever used was the PET, though I think my brother-in-law had a Nascom and I have vague recollections of someone having a UK101. I remember I really wanted an Acorn System 1 for some mad reason.

Goodbye, Netscape.

Macintosh IIsi (M0360) with Macintosh Color Display (M1212), AppleDesign Keyboard (M2980) and MacAlly mouse.

Old Machine interfaces found at The Black Hole, an amazing industrial surplus store.

A view across the keyboard of the Duo 230 to the keyboard of the Powerbook G4.

Fetch was one of the first outright awesome FTP clients for any platform, and Noah still had version 2.0 installed on the machine. Again, this was a good thing, since it was the way that I was able to get his files off of the machine, and able to get a secure deletion utility *onto* the machine to get rid of any trace of his files.