Not just any computer, mind you ... and a fan stopped it completely. Yes, it’s a 1980s-era graphics card that requires a fan. The card draws about 3W, or about two percent of a modern, high ...

The world of computers in the 1980s feels like a time capsule compared to today’s light and thin machines. Long gone are the days of multiple components making up a single computer space ...

In the early 1980s there was growing public awareness ... and there was a brief period in which anything remotely connected with a computer attracted an air of glamour and sophistication.