Zenith Z-181 Leaflet
My mom had an old Zenith Data Systems Z-181 laptop lying around from her grad school days, when she was using it to type her thesis, apparently. When I was in second grade, I was given it to play around with. Though my time might have been better spent learning about the hardware and the low-level operation of the system (for which an older computer is often easier to get at the innards of, so to speak), it did serve as the platform upon which I experienced my first encounter with programming - good old QBASIC, to be specific. I wrote many useless but fun programs, which I probably still have somewhere on a dusty 720 KB floppy.
But all good things must come to an end. Eventually the drive motor of the primary FDD shed its mortal coil, and I moved on. Nevertheless, it was to my great dismay that I found that my mom had given over the tired hulk to a recycling center specializing in computer parts, and it was but small consolation that the technical manual and promotional leaflet were overlooked.
For your viewing pleasure, I have scanned that latter and uploaded it. Through these happy images, may you hearken back to a time when CPU clock speeds were slower, screens smaller, resolutions coarser, storage capacities tighter, manuals arcaner, etc. etc.
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