What computer is this man using?
Posted by Significant_Heat_301@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 17 comments
This is a photo of
1980s :: PM Rajiv Gandhi Working On Computer (took this from Twitter)
Full_Channel706@reddit
This picture is as goid as it probably could get in the 90s
Young and handsome, flying first class without someone next to you. Good food and a computer worth thousands of dollars for you to play with...
Thanks for sharing.
Im_100percent_human@reddit
The plane is definitely not commercial.
fadsoftoday@reddit
He was killed by a suicide bomber, live on tv
benjacob@reddit
Being the prime minister has its perks except for getting blown up
joolzg67_b@reddit
My first luggable.
Need it to work on s galil 3 axis controller card, full length card.
dunzdeck@reddit
What was the card for?
joolzg67_b@reddit
I wrote a program that took AutoCAD DXF files and cut parts out for bottling machines.
The cutting table was a Wadkins Light Router, followed a black line to cut wood.
We retrofitted it with 3 stepper motors and used the Galil card to do the heavy lifting, as it had 2 68000 CPUs which you gave it instructions like line, circle etc and it did the motor control.
Used Borland C 3.1 for the development.
We built 3 machines as the company was very busy in building these machines.
Something like this galil
This-Requirement6918@reddit
I love that even though I'm 37 my fist portable was the T1910. Looking back it was weird in those days for a 13 year old to have a laptop. 486 with a monochrome STN display. Kids these days have no idea how good they have it.
muse_head@reddit
Did it feel like you were using ancient technology? I got a second hand Pentium 3 laptop as a teenager in 2001! Before that I was occasionally using a Toshiba T5100 but I felt like it was something from the olden days (and I'd got it for free from a second hand market)
This-Requirement6918@reddit
Actually no. Tech was so expensive back then was lucky to even have functioning chips in my hands, especially a portable. It did vector graphics (Clarisworks) and Word 6.0 under Win 3.11 on DOS 6 and I was happy. No Internet of course but it was a laptop! That hard disk will still spin up though and I've been sold on Seagate since.
My uncle (who bought that Toshiba) actually really wanted me to get into programming having built desktop computers and selling them in the early 90s but my dad wasn't as enthusiastic. He bought me a Packard Bell in '95 with a modem when I was 8 for that purpose but it only lasted 2 years before crapping out. I finally got a Centrino laptop in 2005 after carrying that one around forever and proving myself. My dad was fucking dumb and never realized my potential with computers which ended up being one reason why I never went to college for it but totally landed contract IT jobs and having a web and graphic design business in my 20s that he loathed. That was in the hey day of Austin TX though when artists and small people could still afford to live there.
I now use the gray pizza box Toshibas of the late 90s to write books on Win98 and WordPad and some other productivity tasks for 11 years now. They're absolute tanks, sadly those early-mid 90s Toshibas just weren't built to stand the test of time the same way but I still have my first one buried in a closet.
141174@reddit
it was probably heavier than the carry on weight allowance
fadsoftoday@reddit
Is that rajiv gandhi?
syxa@reddit
looks like some kind of a Toshiba t3200?
Significant_Heat_301@reddit (OP)
Thx
c-logic@reddit
Without integrated Accu!
T-SquaredProductions@reddit
Looks like anything from a Toshiba T Series (i.e. T3200, T3200SXC, T5100, T5200, T5200C)
Significant_Heat_301@reddit (OP)
Thx