A rather antiquated laptop, by today's standards, would have to be the HP machine I have that was made in 1981.
[size=8pt]The XO-1 is the first-generation, open-source machine distributed through the "One Laptop Per Child" project, which seeks to westernise developing nations and contribute to mass globalisation. A few years ago they were doing a project through the Amazon shopping network called "Give One, Get One", wherein you'd pay, I think, $400, $200 of which would buy you your own XO-1 as well as one for some kid in some third-world country. I got mine through a neighbour whose kid hosed the SD chip (these things don't use regular hard drives, part of the reason why they are so durable) and I got it working again, new SD (I installed a 16GB chip in lieu of the standard 4GB) and install of Mandriva. Works beautifully, definitely seems like it'd be worth more than the $200 or so they sold them for initially (or the $0 I paid for mine!)
F.Y.I., several years ago I used to have a radio mounted on my handlebars! The thing was a piece of crap anyways, and that point was proven after it got totalled during a bad landing (overshot a Superman jump [or a "Bogo" depending on how much of an old-timer you are], missed the landing ramp and dropped like a politician's credibility, dammit.....)