First Laptop

Thankyou for the kind comments and stars for the trek up Bohuntin Hill last night.

The laptop:
This absolutely burst the budget at the time. I think it has a 386DX  processor, 32 mb of ram and about 1800mb hard disk. It comes from a pre wifi era but has a built in CD writer and floppy drive. Certain HP printers of the time had an IR port and this cutting edge laptop could print remotely. You picked up the laptop and pointed the IR port at the printer and you just stood there till the print job was complete. No messing about with printer cables was needed.
The green card sticking out of the side is a PMCIA card bespoke to a Nokia 70 type phone. I could connect my Nokia phone to the card via a cable and achieve a slow internet connection with sufficient speed to send a text only message. The card was like a modem for mobiles.
While this had a Windows OS, probably 95 or 98 my main work program back then still worked in a DOS environment and it performed very well on this device. Latterly, if working away from home, I had to carry a separate hard drive for my survey data so limited was the built in storage..
Everything about portable computing carried a premium price and that PMCIA card with dedicated Nokia cable was about £200.
A current smartphone is probably more powerful by a factor of a thousand.
If I was a folk singer I would need to write a song about the old laptop..