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LogDog75

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Wed Jun 11, 2025, 12:25 AM Jun 11

What was the first laptop you owned or uesd? [View all]

Mine was a Toshiba. It was 1995 and I deployed to Zagreb, Croatia with my medical unit. My unit gave a Toshiba laptop computer with a CD drive. Closed, it was about four inches thick as well as being heavy. I had never used a laptop before so it was interesting to play with. Having a CD drive was useful in that one of our medical technicians had an AF medical CD program that had programmed questions and answers in over a dozen languages. We saw not only American troops but UN troops from countries like Malaysia and Indonesia where English wasn't common.

I used the laptop to control our medical inventory, order/receive supplies from the depot in Germany, and make/complete forms for use with other agencies in the area.

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