Err... try an Elliot 903, paper tape reader and 1/2K of core store weighting over a ton. The "display" was a set of neon lamps :)
Ok - I admit that wasn't MY computer, but we had it in the corner of the room at school.
Our University mainframe had the inauspicious accolade of being the "smallest" Pyramid in existence. It certainly taught good practice of thinking through problems before hacking away at the keyboard.
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--- In Crestron@..., Chris Niles <chris.niles.crestron@...> wrote:
Well if we're playing that game, I had a TI-99 with the cassette tape
drive.
My first portable computer was a LASER50. BASIC, FTW.
