My first laptop. 200 MB Hardrive and 4 MB of RAM. Awesome.

I bought my Toshiba T1910 when I was an undergrad in Colorado. I think I paid like 1500 bucks in 1994-95, but I'm not sure which year. It had a 33MHZ 486 CPU and a 200 Megabyte hard drive and 4 megabytes of RAM. That's megabytes of RAM, not GB, hahah..😂 Later I paid a hundred bucks for a card to upgrade it to 8 MB RAM. I thought it was so badass at the time.

It had a 9.5 inch grayscale screen and it was heavy and it had that funny trackball. It ran Windows 3.11 I used it all through school and I wrote a lot of papers with it. I remember the first Microsoft Office loaded from something like fifteen 3.5 inch floppies. I ended up with a lot of 3.5 inch floppies which I later threw away because they were completely useless. Ahh, the tyranny of technological advance.

I hauled it around Southeast Asia when I was working as and English teach for several year. I think the screen finally gave up the ghost around 2000 in Chiang Rai, Thailand, maybe from the humidity and rain. But I got my money's worth from it, so I moved up to something with color, another Toshiba. I ended up owning several Toshibas. Too bad they stopped making laptops, some of their models were pretty good.