I owned one of those for a while. Was given to me by a friend back in the early 90s.

Aside from a huge power under the hood, ha ha ha, it also had heft. You could definitely stun a cow with that thing.

And power? We named it ouraborus and programed it to be a magic eight ball. However, sadly, it decided to live up to its name, and consumed the cassette tape that it was stored on. Those tape machines out of tenancy to eat the tape if you didn’t keep the heads clean.

But it did run magic eight ball slowly. Very slowly.

And 40+ years on, our modern supercomputers-in-pocket can't do what these early machines could:

Flick 'em on, wait 1 or 2 seconds, enter code & run it.

Pathetic.