IBM 700 Laptop Significance?

From: Doug Yowza <yowza_at_yowza.com>
Date: Wed Jun 10 00:58:22 1998

On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> 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).

That must be it. The TP700 was the first with the TrackPoint (eraser
head).

The first DOS laptop with a pointing device was the GRiD 1550SX, and it
had an isopoint (tootsie-roll) similar to the Outbound Mac-clone.

-- Doug
Received on Wed Jun 10 1998 - 00:58:22 BST