World's first notebook with touchpad?

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Fri Apr 20 19:58:32 2001

=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCPi5KayEhTVswbBsoQg== skrev:

Nice name you've got there. =)

>I'd like to know what was the world's first notebook PC with
>touchpad (or glidepoint, trackpad, whatever).

>My friend insist that it was PowerBook 520/540 from Apple,
>but I doubt it. I know Gavilan laptop had one, but I don't
>know it was truely mouse-like pointing device or not.

>Does anyone know other notebook (laptop) PC with touchpad
>prior to PowerBook?

The Atari ST Book (which was not a PC, but a notebook Atari) had a rather
exotic pointing device. Could anyone elaborate on how it operated? I suppose
http://www.atari-history.org/ has got more info.

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