The Smallest Windows PC in 1995 Was Also a Phone! IBM Palm Top PC110
Vložit
- čas přidán 7. 01. 2021
- Not only was the IBM PalmTop PC 110 the world's tiniest DOS and Windows subnotebook in 1995 but it also functioned as a telephone handset! Let's take a look at this fantastic little 33MHz 486 computer from the mid '90s, which also strove to be a personal organizer, a digital notepad, a desktop clock, a portable fax machine, and a digital camera all in one handheld device.
● LGR links:
/ lazygamereviews
/ lazygamereviews
/ lazygamereviews
● Music courtesy of:
www.epidemicsound.com
#LGR #Retro #Technology - Věda a technologie
![Radius Pivot: The Rotating CRT Monitor from 1991 [LGR Oddware]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/mpayqVGmKyo/mqdefault.jpg)
"wow i wish i had something like this!" i said, before realizing i was watching this on a device that serves the exact same purposes
Yup, it'd be absolutely useless, just gathering dust in my storage. Still want one.
But dang, having this smart phone precursor 25 years ago would've been the coolest thing ever.
I know, right? Smartphones do their job so well we barely even notice them anymore.
@@deusexaethera my pc does a million more things than any cell phone can do. They are good for what they are but they will never replace the pc.
But this is still better because it can run doom
And you have a keyboard to use as a controller instead of stupid touch controls
Still writing/typing "Fart" after all these years. Warms the heart.
and the chair
I endorse this message :')
If it's not Fart(s) or Balls it's not a proper LGR video.
@@SopanKotbagi ahah!!!
@@ahandsomefridge indeed, a recurring insight into what goes round his head...
I love that you're just cutting off the "can it run Doom" questions immediately now.
I would have loved this in 1995. I was always wanting something sort of like this. I hated how large desktop machines were. I wanted a laptop that I could plug in a mouse, keyboard, and monitor to and make it my desktop. But in 1995 there was always some sort of compromise. The main one being that most laptops of the era didn't have sound cards. I've never heard of a 486/33 laptop with a sound card, so that's pretty darned cool!
Wouldn't the trade off had been too great to practically use though? Even back then, I'm sure it's too far from practical.
Aww, isn't the screen-to-body ration of 0.31 to die for?
yeap I would of love it too. I just got a GPD micropc smaller then this. win10 etc and love it I play old skool games one it. and use n64 and ps1 emulators too. and its easily fit in my jacket pocket and take to work.
@@ps5hasnogames55 Why is everyone coming up with sentences and jokes like that! If he says that it worked for many other systems, I believe him! Also, everyone makes errors, even really big ones, that means that you probably made some too... errare humanum est, perseberare autem diabolicum.
@@marinacelada3246 It actually worked for many systems I worked on as well. It was just a simple misfortune.
This thing was a smartphone before smartphones were mainstream.
This is some real hipster shit.
Actually, those would be the Windows based Pocket PC devices which appeared towards the latter part of the 90s, and continued till the mid 2000s. HTC were the king of the Pocket PC.
Or cellphones in general as we came know them around that time
Japan is always ahead of America in terms of cellphone technology
The original Windows phone
This would have been the dream in 1995. What an epic little machine!
Amazed this existed then. I wouldn't mind having it now
My dream in 1995 would’ve been befriends with Clint and play for hours
I would have got one if it was sold in the US back then. Everything LGR did with this unit was pretty much the stuff I would have been doing in 1995. DOOM, Duke3D, word processing, programming, drawing, etc. The bonus is I would not have needed my nokia phone. lol
@@Tall_Order Unless I'm misinterpreting your meaning, you WOULD still have needed your Nokia phone as the PC110 has no cellular capability, it just works as a regular phone handset if you plug it into a standard landline jack.
@@dunebasher1971 Ah well luckily I said "even if its just dialup" then. Then again we would need a modem...
5:34 "I took dirty pictures with this!" :D :D :D
JAJAJAJAJJAJAJAJAJAJAJJAJAJAAJA YOU MADE MY DAY =D
C: C: C: C: C:
I'd love to see >:-D
Imagine the flex of playing full doom on a bus in 1995. The drip would be real
I need a non zoomer translation for this comment...
@@plaguis1391 one would appear to be quite a tubular person if they were playing Doom on a large multi person public transportation vehicle in the mid nineteen nineties
@@nelsonglover3963 hmm yes quite 🧐
@@plaguis1391 "Imagine playing doom on the bus to school in 1995, you'd be the coolest kid around"
@@plaguis1391 Zoomer language sometimes tends to be direct and easy to understand - "flex" in this context is like someone "flexing" their muscles, showing off.
imagine if this would've taken off and we would hold our phones today like a waiter holds their dishes
IBM Phones instead of iPhones
ngadge, the best taco phone
We would have smaller laptops I'm guessing.
Thats what i do with my laptop and i never dropped it
Better mobile games? I guess.
"itty bitty pc committee", man, you're killin' me
"Persona-ware! I bet you never saw it coming."
You cheeky bastard, you
11:37 I love how IBM can fit upgradable ram into a laptop this tiny, but Apple can't even do it on full sized laptops
Won't....not can't lol
I had a G3 Lombard that had upgradeable memory (it had 384MB), also had a G4 Powerbook which I managed to upgrade to 1GB from 128MB.
@@BlokeOnAMotorbike I'm mainly talking about today, how you can still get new Thinkpads with upgradable ram and upgradable ssds but with macbooks that's all built into the board. Apple has been doing stuff like this for roughly 10 years now.
@@sleeplessengineer1450, well, I upgraded mbp mid 2015 from 256GB to 2TB Intel SSD 6, but you got the point, it actually will be cheaper to go linux and loose all software that I paid for, than to buy new mac when this one will die/be obsolete beyond usable.
I've got a 2001 iBook with a normal (for the era) laptop SODIMM slot for more RAM. It's easier to open up than any of my Thinkpads, too. Hopefully that will start coming back as right-to-repair laws come in.
Imagine sitting in the cafeteria in 1995 dressed all in denim with your mini Windows laptop playing Doom, and your crush calls so you fold it up and take the phone call. A true Chad would own something like this
You had to be cafeteria manger in order to do it. The device has no cellular module but has to be connected to a landline.
@@vladyarotsky5287 Damn you just ruined my fantasy with the landline, I keep forgetting wifi / portable cellphones didnt exist until the early 2000s :/
@@Pozorrogo They had things similar to wifi (radio networks) and they had cellphones (Zack Morris from Saved By The Bell had one), but it would have increased the size and the signal wouldn't be great.
90s cell phone ads: czcams.com/video/-19gbBJK0us/video.html&ab_channel=JolieWranger
Alohanet: czcams.com/video/oKrUGRVwFBI/video.html&ab_channel=Computerphile
@@Pozorrogo you actually could've connected a cellular PCMCIA modem and get online with it. Needed to wait until 1999 tho.
At least you can still play a solid game of doom in full color
"itty bitty PC committee"
- LGR 2021
1:51 "And a satisfying 'clink' whenever you close the lid."
*KACHUNK!*
Dang, that *IS* satisfying. Sounds like you're cocking some sort of firearm.
clickorgasm it is
Almost sounds like a Garand clip jumping out :D
@@miekkb seriously I have never heard one better!
That's why I like my thinkpad x200
We deffinitly need more devices built like this nowadays, solid as a tank and satisfyingly tactile to use
I would have felt like a hacker supreme having this growing up.
LGR rule 1: any time you can write “farts”, it must be done
or shoehorn Duke
Internet: but can it run doom?
LGR: no shut up can it run FARTS BALLS?
When its closed, it looks like a Gameboy Advance SP and ITS A FREAKIN' SMARTPHONE FROM 1995!!
IBM made the first smartphone in 1995 with the Simon.
How did I not see this? I grew up in the era of GameBoy Advance and I didn't notice this until you said it.
Seriously, though...those were the days. Back when everyone in the cafeteria and at recess had GameBoys. Later on sometimes a first gen DS. I remember the days when you could find someone to trade or battle Pokémon with after class. Now it's all emulation.
Its a japanese exclusive so even growing up in the 90's you wouldn't really know of it unless you were into japanese tech, lived there or had info on this stuff from around the world at the time. I remember the og gb blowing my mind and its camera.
I'm not gonna lie; sitting here in 2021 surrounded by a smartphone, a tablet, a docked laptop, an all-in-one pc, a home NAS, and a gaming PC with dual monitors, I audibly gasped in amazement when you showed the keyboard on the 701c. THAT is truly the way of the future!
Weird flex, but okay
@@Timbobjr Odd interpretation, but okay.
Not a flex at all. The point was to illustrate that I (like many, if not most, of us watching this channel) am surrounded by modern technology at all times which, in most every way, totally outclasses the 90s tech on display with the 701c's "butterfly" keyboard. Despite all of this, I was instantaneously amazed by it.
It was intended more as a slightly self-deprecating comment of "the grass is always greener..", but that sort of loses any sense of amusement once you have to explain it, so I apologize if you missed that.
@@Stjernefodt- Dude, nevermind Dunce cap Jr over here. I know _exactly_ what you mean and I'm 100% the same way.
In spite of owning a pocket sized device--let alone a full sized beastly machine--with capabilities far surpassing anything you could possible comprehend in the 90s, my jaw hit the floor upon the reveal of that innovative butterfly keyboard. There's something about "vintage" electronics and their use of mechanical components that always fascinated me.
As someone who can remember as far back as the year 2000/01 with all the old tech as it was then new, I can safely say there is a sense of wonder missing from most of today's tech. Although the sheer performance of modern hardware is thousands of times faster than it was back then, most of it lacks that ambitious "spark" of futuristic design that were so common throughout the 90's and into the early 2000's.
We get it bro you are a tool
You can probobally 3d print a dock for your phone to do the same thing
Holy fuck that butterfly keyboard mechanism is the coolest shit I've seen in a while!
I pressed left cursor several times there to see it more than once... so cool :)
The fact that you can still obtain batteries for this device is amazing. Proper future proofing in that sense, and goes a long way in solidifying the collectability status, since one could quite easily use it for some kind of productivity even today.
It was probably a cost and dev time saving measure that they used something off the shelf instead of proprietary.
Either way, yeah, amazing
No, the main issue with these are the LCDs, which fail randomly (it seems the layers come apart). Once that's happened, you can do nothing to help or fix it.
yes, you can still obtain batteries, but not everywhere. My HP 100LX runs on AAs so you can get replacements at any grocery store. But the slow 186 and non-backlit screen make it worse overall for productivity compared to the PC110.
If anyone's interested, I made a little DOScember video demoing my Palmtop, but I don't give it nearly the justice it deserves: czcams.com/video/RNPNwPmP6LI/video.html
Its a shame not many companies keep the ability to future-proof like this anymore. Would save so much waste! Also, the fact it can use compact flash drives is a bonus as they're still in use today too!
Replace the screen and it'll last forever!
@@the_kombinator if the dongle is available, it seems like a VGA monitor can be connected without any problems
i was about to say "we've come a far way in 15 years..." then i realized that was 25 years ago... im old.
26 years ago haha. Old.
That's okay, everyone forgets the trauma of the '00s.
@frd liem USB was created in 1996, becoming widespread from 97. Windows 95 had USB support in OSR2.
Don't feel bad I remember watching television on a 1948 Zenith black and white TV with a round picture tube in a beautiful wood cabinet.
The TV screen was on the right hand side and it had a AM radio on the upper left hand side with a phonograph below it.
In 1965 we were very fortunate to get a Magnavox color TV console for the basement play area.
Good timing on that as many TV shows on the TV networks had started to be broadcast in color
Also we had one of the new fangled Sony Transistor pocket radios in 1962 . 6 transistors I think it had and it still worked fine even after 56 years.
I do remember the days of checking and replacing TV tubes in TV's and radios at the tube tester machine in our local grocery store with dad.
@@m9078jk3 damn were your parents rich?? Color TVs were pretty uncommon in 1965 as far as I think..
6:40 Just that port alone is so ahead of its time, considering actual usb didn't come out until 1996 and wasn't commonly used until 1998
Yeah, but it has nothing in common with USB... maybe except being square in shape. For example Nintendo Link or power connectors are quite similar as well... Or dozens other proprietary plugs found on hardware now and back then.
@@override7486 Being rectangular in shape and easy to plug in and detach, that second one is a pretty significant improvement over things like the PS/2 mini-DIN connector.
Not worth the inconvenience of having to bring an adapter, though. :)
It's not a port you can connect a whole lot of different peripherals to... unlike Atari's SIO of 1979! ;) I don't know why IBM didn't go for something like that.
This is impressive for 1995, like a primitive GPD Win.
This is so 90's cyberpunk. Haha man... This would have looked really cool in a 90's hacker movie.
Like the Atari Portfolio used in the ATM hack scene in Terminator 2.
@@nullvalu same energy, i always wanted a small handheld laptop like a sony clio just to do hacking anywhere as soon i get a wifi. get a gentoo machine out of my pocket, a serial cable and go "wait, don't worry, i'm gonna hack that thing"
@@SilverSpoon_ There is a GPD Win/Win 2 for an instance, I have a GPD Win exactly because of watching "too much" 90s science-fiction as well as being able to play old Windows games and do all things Android, Apple and other ARM smartphones just don't and probably won't do in 20 years on the go (any kind of cloud computing was NEVER an option for me), and it is super handy for everything I would use a normal laptop for, except for very demanding things like 3d modelling of something more complex than say a battery cover for a camera that I need 3D printed yesterday, or playing modern games. But it's great for old Windows or emulated games, moving photos off camera to a hard drive, editing documents and maybe coding when I have to do it on the go. And for watching DVD movies on the ceiling from a pico projector when lying in bed sick with COVID-19, as the cyberdeck itself, USB DVD drive and the projector on a little tripod fit comfortably beside me and a bowl of popcorn. The only thing I regret about buying it is not getting a GPD Win 2 instead, because I couldn't afford it back then. Really, a very useful thing to have, and if it had a cellular modem and better battery life, I would probably not need a smartphone at all.
I think retropunk might fit better lol
@@krzysztofczarnecki8238 if it can run Debian why not. Was thinking of something more lightweight than an Athlon, like a crusoe or even a MIPS. but well good to know it exist. Design wise it's pretty horrible.
Personaware: You only get to open 3 programs a day and every time you open one, time skips forward 6 hours
If you try to open a program after 9PM, a picture of a cat appears, and the device tells you to go to sleep.
@@YamiSatoshi "God dammit Morgana! Just lemme call Kawakami, get a massage then go batting!"
At least you can play Innocent Sin Online on it.
human video game
haqhaaha im dying
The fact that a viewer loaned it to you makes me really hopefully for the future of humanity. I'm sure ego plays at least a small part in it, but the real treat is the sharing of something cool for others to see.
I've been watching every LGR episode in release order. The Persona: "Last Surprise" reference totally hit me like a brick be cause that means I'm nearing present day in the back log! What am I supposed to do with my eyes after I am caught up with LGR?
I like how Clint's benchmark for quality for devices of the era is how well they run Doom.
or Duke Nukem 3D ...lol I would behave the same !
It's the only benchmark which matters tbh
I was going to comment this!
japan made products of japan
the benchmark before benchmarks
I have one of these - bought it back in 99 or so. My old professor Ted Selker designed this when he was at IBM Almaden/Japan. He is also the inventor of the trackpoint “nub”. I’ve got stories...
Awesome! Would love to hear more
Stories of some of the rude slang words that are used to refer to the TrackPoint ?
**I** like stories
It's the 90's GPD Win Max
I remember being so hyped when they announced 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞™ at E3 95! Truly flipped the genre on its head.
Ultraman marketing, huh? So you might say this is the first... Ultrabook?
Get out of here!
_Heh._
nice,
Trying to imagine Sun marketing their UltraSparc systems with Utltraman in the late 90s! lol
this is way better than one of those, can confirm was a owner
was
I bet Chips Challenge was more of a challenge than usual on this little thing!
But you'd play it all over again, right?
@@johnathin0061892 If he had to take bids all over again, he'd still do it fifteen times over again.
Bummer
Well it *was* on the Atari Lynx, which had a smaller screen
I bet Tommy Wiseau couldn't play Billy May's S**t Blaster on that, either
Man, I just love watching you test these devices with games and checking which ones pushed the hardware to the limit at the time.
I LOVE this thing man; it strikes me as being remarkably ahead of the curve for its time, even if it was a part of the then contemporary subnotebook category. Hell, in a roundabout way it's like a very early smartphone; a fully fledged handheld computer you can take calls with.
Front-facing smartphone cameras? Nah fam, I'll take the PCMCIA camera.
15:18 “An optional option that optionally came with the hard drive option” TADA!!! 😄
Welcome to the Redundant department of Redundant redundancy department
Missed one optional there:
"An optional option that optionally came with the optional hard drive option."
This warmed my heart. Thank you.
Wow. Way ahead of its time. The integration and miniaturization is amazing.
Yesss, I have a long day at a nearly empty office today so it's time to kick back and watch some LGR. I might just order some food too.
Livin the dream!
Poor you
Omg employ me please?
the poorman's corner office :D
Heck no I'm not a big shot. I work in IT and most of my users are remote because of the pandemic. I'm here to decommission an old server!
"Itty bitty PC Committee" love that 😂
😁
that "Good Call" joke you made at the end of your video was hysterical to me. I got a good kick out of that. Keep up the good work! :)
unbelievably awesome presentation that answers questions that I've had for decades!!!
I had a Toshiba Libretto 50 and I KICK myself for getting rid of it! But THIS was the HOLY GRAIL!
Welcome to the new episode of:
"Play DOOM on anything"
Next episode: Doom on an ATM in 2021! :D
Me: stressed, great big ball of anxious energy
LGR: “Greetings...”
Me: no worries, this calls for tea
Perfect channel to watch on tv while it's heavy raining, on the sofa, cup of cold chocolate milk, while covered in blanket
For real. Honestly this channel helped me get through a really rough period of my life. There was a time I was having bad anxiety and panic attacks, but LGR's calming voice and coverage of non upsetting and "mundane" objects really helped my mind to stop racing
Stay awhile and listen.
Exactly the reason why I love this channel so much, Clints way of presenting, his voice and all the 90s nostalgia makes me relax in a way I never knew I needed.
This is me either stressed before bed or in a warm bath. His voice is soothing and learning about old tech is so fun and calming.
Always wanted one of these, but never found one in good working order.
Thanks for the great video, wonderful to see it in detail.
Very Nice Production Quality MR LGR.
The cuteness of this computer alone makes me want to have it.
It's like a chibi ThinkPad. XD
used to see people use them on trains when they where new when I was a child.
Fantastic, amazing how feature packed that little box is. Amazeballs
Excellent presentation as always.
I never saw a JRPG joke coming in an LGR thing
Never expected to see you here
i know right!!!!
shouldnt you be watching anime that just released
i was waiting for a persona joke, but it took me a few seconds to notice it already happened
@@akawhut What's the timestamp
This is so impressive.
IBM: What features should we give our tiny little PC110?
Ricoh: Yes.
Nice to see you playing Descent on that thing. Was one of my favourite DOS games of all time. Nothing comes close today when it comes to how well it was made considering Interplay made it from scratch.
Such an awesome little retro gaming laptop. No wonder its still sought after today.
Amazing tech for the period. Wonderfully designed and thought out. The Japanese has heaps of exclusive dream tech in the 90's! Love that little pop our RJ11 port, simple but clever.
I love the subtitles "tiny Doom gameplay" lol
"Personaware! I bet you never saw it coming."
God damn it.
I don’t get it :(
@@sparkle1234 Its a reference from a game. Look up the song 'Last Surprise.'
@@sparkle1234 it's a reference to the persona 5 battle theme, last surprise
a part of the song goes "you'll never see it coming"
I didn't see it coming that clint was a persona fan 😆
I got got, even here :(
7:59 “really ergonomic “ 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Superb video in every aspect!
Me earlier in the video: "Hah, Personaware. I know there's a joke in there somewhere."
Me later in the video: Hears Clint go "I bet you never saw it coming!"
You magnificent bastard.
I feel like an entire vaporwave album could be dedicated to this one product and the marketing for it.
This is so dope, I would have loved this back in the day, reminds me a lot of my Hp jornada 720 tiny winCE laptop
for some reason this device amazes me more than any of the smartphones today
Managed to do a full spit take of morning coffee on that Persona joke. Bravo haha
"Personaware, i bet you never saw it coming"- Yeah, I got the reference
@@KarlHamilton It's a reference to Persona 5, a JRPG.
@@KarlHamilton it's a reference to the game Persona 5. One of the battle themes is called "Last Surprise", and in the lyrics it says "you'll never see it coming".
This review is so detailed... Wow. Thanks Clint for putting so much hard work into this video. Amazing work 👍 x 100000000
2:18 You're going the extra mile for that nostalgic feel. New Coke...
"Personaware"
"I bet you never saw that coming"
Classy reference Clint
For hos neutral special, he wields woodgrain
"Personaware"
"Bet you never saw it coming"
was..was that a Last Surprise joke, never thought i'd ever hear one in LGR.
i dont get it.
@@DeaconTaylor czcams.com/video/Ec4YbVP9R-A/video.html
@@DeaconTaylor Persona 5 Reference. czcams.com/video/Ec4YbVP9R-A/video.html
I never saw that coming, ngl.
@@DeaconTaylor It's a reference to a song in the video game "persona 5"
1:03 "Runs Doom (...) admirably well". Violent ghosting on the screen that was not featured even in Ghostbusters 🤣
LGR, beer, and cheez-its. It's a great night.
I can't stop thinking of a DS when I see this. Especially the XL models of DS or 3DS.
It even has a touch sensitive pad at the bottom that's meant to be used with a stylus. It's not a separate screen, but still.
Looks more like a GBA SP to me.
GPD
this is like GPD WIN before GPD WIN ever came into existance
I was about to point that out as well....
Was thinking the same thing
Megapluses for showing this thingy next to a fountain pen! Seriously, thanks for covering this beastie.
I like this channel. This channel makes me happy.
"optional option that optionally came with the hard drive option"
laughed at this
I actually opted out.
Only a minute in and he's got it running Doom. Someone has his priorities straight
It's a 486, after all.
VAUUUEEE - nice piece of kit and video 🥳
Wonderful form factor! That classic IBM build quality is long gone but it was glorious.
15:16 funniest thing you've ever said by far, and the "TADA" sound after that just sealed it :-D
I was not expecting that Persona joke :)
You could say, that... you didn’t see it coming!
his mind is too fast for eyes
@@poble He’s done in by the time it hit him
First Surprise Matsimus and now a G I Haigs I was not expecting, are all the War Thunder/ArmA channel’s subscribed to the exact same channels I am?!
Luv ur channel btw
Everyone has Persona, moron, it came with your PS Vita.
This was such an interesting video thanks for making it! That butterfly keyboard blew my mind. It looks like something Hyperion would make
My pleasure, I’m glad you enjoyed it!
love watching your videos
“Included dongles? That’s illegal.” - Apple
They patented separately sold dongles..
Ok
This thing in '95 had a better solution for dongles than Apple in 2021
I feel like LGR needs a land line just to try these crazy things out. Lol
Most routers have land line jack capabilities. The problem is most of these require a different sort of internet if that makes sense. Now if someone could find enough of these to make them a bit cheaper and more common people could modify a few to work on modern tech.
Here in Germany you have routers with TAE plugs(the National plug for telephones) and they convert it between analog and digital. So you can use your old phones with a sip server. An sip account with your old phone number is still included in mostly all deals for home Internet.
@@Vlad2319 It's uncommon? Here in the Netherlands most ISPs toss in telephony with your internet package either for free or a couple bucks a month.
He could set up a fake phone server and dial it etc
What an incredible machine for its time! Props to IBM Japan and Ricoh for the design and manufacturing of such a great, little laptop. And thank you, LGR, for this extremely interesting showcase!
i love how this impresses me in 2022, good stuff
Laptop: you can write notes on me!
LGR: hehe farts
Was this comment really necessary to make?
- I need your phone now! It's an emergency!
-Sorry, man. I am saving Phobos.
@Avi Thank you!
More like "Take f...in phone and buzz off! I'm in monster killing now."
I can't stop thinking about that slick ass four way audio switch and vu meter he had the PC 110 on, what a slick piece of kit Clint.
i love the jazz. this channel is so chill, i use it to relax.
...for when you want to use a computer AND feel like a giant at the same time!
Or your personal phone annoys the fuck out of you and you decide that you want a bigger screen and keyboard granted not much bigger though.
Genuinely incredible for 1995. Honestly can't believe how amazing this little machine is!
Awesome piece of tech!
Outstanding review for an outstanding product. Thank you for sharing.
God lord, the level of quality, polish, and _all-around awesomeness_ in this video is off the charts!
Not really a hardcore fan of old hardware but your videos with their high quality production values make the subject so fascinating.Good job.
I know nothing about technology and I followed you because of your Sims videos. But..... you make this technology stuff interesting to watch. :)
Man, this would have been awesome at the time.
I love expansion slots, sadly they have been left in the past.
I used to have a long laptop with a tons of expansion slots.
If I remember correctly it didn't have that many ports, but it had 2 expansion slots and a compact flash slot similar to the one in the video.
I think I had 4 or 5 expansion cards, it was awesome swapping them in and out for different things. I can't remember what they were all for, but the great part about it is that it allowed me to use the laptop much longer without having to carry dongles and what not.