IBM 700 Laptop Significance?

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_ix.netcom.com>
Date: Wed Jun 10 00:28:45 1998

Was this one of the ones from about '92? If it's the one I'm thinking of,
it would be the first with the 'pencil' pointer in the keyboard. For all I
know, the first built in pointer (I'd not seen any prior to this). Of
course I really remember it running AIX and OS/2 at the same time (I hate
AIX, but sure wish they had released that product).

                                Zane

>I picked up a copy of Mobile Computing and the editorial starts off by
>mentioning several portable computers that were significant in the history
>of mobile computing. Included in the list was the Model 100 (of course)
>and the IBM 700 (I forget the others.)
>
>The question I have is what was significant about the IBM 700? If it's the
>I think it is, it had an external fdd, but it certainly wasn't the first
>(heck, the M100 had that.)
>
>So, does anyone know what the ed might have been talking about?
>
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