Toshiba laptops were so sick in 1998. They sent emails to SPACE!
This is a Toshiba Satellite Pro laptop (remember those?) computer used by Bill Clinton in 1998.
As we previously reported, this laptop, used to send the first ever presidential email, is up for auction, and the bid has jumped up to a crazy $50,556.
As it turns out, the circumstances of that first email exchange — between Clinton and astronaut John Glen — are actually pretty fascinating.
The laptop actually belonged to White House Physician Commander Robert G. Darling.
The event was unplanned, and when Clinton heard Glen wanted to exchange letters, White House staffers had to scramble to find a computer. ("Make it happen," is what Clinton literally said.) Here's the official memo/story:
