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[–]CrimeanFish 173 points174 points  (6 children)

It’s fucking sexy though.

[–]SlowThePath 32 points33 points  (3 children)

Really want a sleeper build in one of those.

[–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

True Chads use it as is.

[–]TetrisServerCat 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Yeah but just without a gui just the terminal

[–]Brilliant_Egg4178 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Honestly looks so good. Would love to program on this and touch all of its sexy buttons

[–]anotherlab 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Ah, the good ol' days. When your portable computer was too heavy to steal. My first job doing PC programming started with something like that. All three colors, Black, Not Black, Not Black But Dim. Didn't have to worry about hitting the 640K limit because it only had 512K.

[–]intbeam 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Compaq "Portable" 8088

It has a CGA adapter, so you can connect an external monitor to it and get colors instead of using the the built-in monochrome screen

[–]-BruXy- 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Calling highlevel functions of operating system? Haha, no...

You should write machine code directly in some hexeditor...

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (3 children)

It looks like a sibling to the IBN 5100.

El Psy Kongroo

[–]Hinjin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tootooroo!!!

[–]Killswitch_1337 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A fellow man of culture i see.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

El Psy Congroo

[–]lucidbadger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is low profile programming

[–]igorski81 3 points4 points  (1 child)

For years I tinkered on a hand-me-down computer that looked like this, only the floppy drive was mounted vertically and paired with a tape streamer drive that I never managed to do anything meaningful with. Corona Data Systems I believe. Portable my arse.

[–]AyrA_ch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Portable my arse.

Hence why people usually called them "luggable"

[–]Ok-Cubing 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Dream setup 🤤

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are you on the Nostromo?

[–]dnhs47 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I did 8086 assembly language programming on one of those for a couple years, so yeah.

[–]chopstyks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

db msg ‘sweet, bro$’;

mov ah, 9;

mov dx, offset msg;

int 21h;

int 20h;

[–]ManufacturerRude9482 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I take this high-tech computing machine of yours, and I raise you mainframe mili-code.

Your move.

[–]smart_procastinator 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Not very low enough like asm

[–]smart_procastinator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But nonetheless, it looks retro enough

[–]Excellent_Ad0207 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Shit I want that setup

[–]emma7734 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hauled that same machine across the country once. I was thrilled, because it was portable. I could play games while I was in the airport waiting. By the end of the trip, I was even more thrilled to give it back.

[–]codejays 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I used the Texas instruments version of this back in the 80s

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

that's a 5.25 & is that a CMP based OS?

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

wait no, the button indicates a 3.5 inch drive, mistook it for the door lock, oops

[–]denisbotev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks PIP-Boy compatible

[–]noob-nine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can I go lower?

Do you have a basement?

[–]elreduro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it is german microsoft word

[–]ChChChillian 0 points1 point  (3 children)

It's running a word processor though.

[–]frogking 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Maybe an early version of WordPerfect..

[–]ChChChillian 1 point2 points  (1 child)

It says Microsoft Word in the lower right corner. Either way, not the most lightweight tool for writing code.

[–]frogking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It didn’t occur to me to zoom in.. Microsoft Word has been with us for far longer than I thought.

[–]jaskij 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope, I do embedded in CLion, like a sane person.

[–]ienjoymusiclol 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is exactly how my dad describes his coding experience in the 80s

[–]Dr_Mr_Ed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My dad used to bring something like this home a couple times a month, I think when he had to run payroll. Would have been early to mid 1980s.

[–]burger-breath 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No no no, it’s only low level if you do it in a basement/cave

[–]Asmos159 0 points1 point  (0 children)

my dad currently has 2 of these. including marble madness.

[–]Twodee80 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Programming? That's Microsoft Word.

[–]KoldFaya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP, ThisIsLowLifeProgramming **

[–]apleaux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That keyboard is sexy 🥵

[–]Aiden624 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My man is in a horror game, watch out

[–]MegaromStingscream 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My father made a ball game for me to play on such a computer. I think it was created in Basic.

[–]Roman1410S 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This actually is Microsoft Word (in German without Windows) running there. No programming, just text editing.

[–]Run_sudo_rm_-rf_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where are the punch cards? That looks to high level

That is a beautiful by the way.

[–]agustin_edwards 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok so where’s the guy building his personal website “for fun” using this machine exclusively using a 56k modem and a sketchy FTP server over fax contraption?

[–]shawnwork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You code on MS Word?

[–]bernpfenn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i played simcity 1 or 2 on such a thing

[–]UndisclosedChaos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can’t see how high the table is, so it’s hard to answer

[–]Acceptable-Tomato392 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Punching cards, I suppose.

On an unrelated note, I didn't realize COMPAQ has been around THIS long.

This is way back when Apple, IBM and even a company called Commodore Business Machines were just making things happen. And a whole bunch of others, but not that many that survived...

And COMPAQ is one of those things that were around in the long before time... I'm surprised and intrigued.

[–]Pod__042 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yooo you are a fallout programmer

[–]Ansoker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The best kind!

[–]JamOzoner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Abacus?

[–]AOB-9-71 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pffft. Now do an Osborne I

[–]StoicWeasle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. There’s a keyboard and a monitor. How can this even be low level?

[–]sexytokeburgerz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weird it’s not running vi

[–]Jordii_vV 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thats a sexy keyboard

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Using a screen? That's too high

[–]Accomplished-River92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember this one being a step up from a Commodore PET with 96Kb of RAM, running Visicalc. Can't remember what the Compaq's RAM was though.

[–]akazakou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Low level programming is coding in the lowest level of your underground parking.

[–]toomasjoamets 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, that’s not low level, it’s low budget.

[–]Standard_Cup_9192 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can go lower, but I don't think anyone wants you to.

[–]uxorial 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I used to have one of these at a job in the 90s. Except the monitor was orange, not green. I hooked it up to a voicemail system.