My first childhood computer was an IBM P70 luggable. I loved that thing. It had such great feel — so many clicky parts — that really appealed to me as a little kid.
The keyboard, which snapped into the case, also had these little legs on the back that swiveled so you could set it at an angle. The 3.5" floppy drive tilted out, and it had a great IBM-blue button to press to eject. Naturally the keyboard was clicky as all get-out. Beautiful orange plasma display. In hindsight, you'd think it would make MS Paint boring, but I loved it just the same.
One story. At maybe 4 or 5 years old, I thought to myself: I wonder if I can make this blue floppy eject button pop out without putting a disk in the drive. So I jammed a plastic ruler around inside the drive feeling for some kind of latch to press. I was not able to get the button to come out, but I sure as hell broke the drive. Whatever software was on the machine before jamming that thing around is the software that stayed on that machine for the rest of its days.
The keyboard, which snapped into the case, also had these little legs on the back that swiveled so you could set it at an angle. The 3.5" floppy drive tilted out, and it had a great IBM-blue button to press to eject. Naturally the keyboard was clicky as all get-out. Beautiful orange plasma display. In hindsight, you'd think it would make MS Paint boring, but I loved it just the same.
One story. At maybe 4 or 5 years old, I thought to myself: I wonder if I can make this blue floppy eject button pop out without putting a disk in the drive. So I jammed a plastic ruler around inside the drive feeling for some kind of latch to press. I was not able to get the button to come out, but I sure as hell broke the drive. Whatever software was on the machine before jamming that thing around is the software that stayed on that machine for the rest of its days.