> It was white, and extremely heavy. The display wasn't black and white; it 
> was blue, purple and pale blue.

Ah yes :-)

> Until then, I'd only ever programmed in machine code and BASIC. (Back when 
> BASIC was BASIC... You know, with GOTO and line numbers and stuff!)

Hehe, although the BASIC I had (on a BBC B) also had functions and 
procedures, so you really could keep clear of the dreaded goto.

> Also, the display "rippled" when you touched it...

They still do today (although probably not as bad), try it.  Two years ago I 
built a test rig to measure the severeness of this exact phenomena - as you 
can imagine it's not exactly desired behaviour when you have a 
touch-screen...

> And it had a chess game where if you did this certain move, the game 
> somehow managed to make a *screaming* sound from the beep-speaker...! o_O

Ah yes - controlling the internal speaker directly, you can still do that on 
most PCs and laptops today, although Windows probably blocks any software in 
user mode from accessing it.

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