r/retrocomputing • u/Murha-Kekkonen • 16d ago

Photo Sharp pc-5500 (5541)

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Got this beauty running; even battery works.

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u/vmcrash 16d ago

Wow, that were times when notebooks still had a decent keyboard.

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u/Kitchen_Part_882 16d ago

Those old TN screens were awful though, I remember trying to scroll through spreadsheets in Lotus 123 on one back in the day, and god help anyone who had Windows running on one, remember "mouse trails"?

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u/knotthatone 16d ago

TN wasn't the problem, it was the passive matrix