At 05:49 AM 7/21/99 -0400, you wrote:
>While the Epson HX-20 can lay claim to being the first laptop, it had some
Epson HX-20 was the first laptop-sized computer. Toshiba claims they
coined (and trademarked) the term "laptop", beginning with their T-1100.
I'm going to have to chase down that Byte reference; I seem to remember
"lap-computer". The m100, being a fair bit more usable and available,
became a hit with journalists, and got quite a bit more fame.
>Now, does anyone know which the first notebook was? Was it the Grid
>Compass, or the DG/One? Or something else I've never heard of?
GRiD Compass, in Fall '82, followed by the Sharp PC-5000 and the Gavilan
(both in '83; I'm still trying to find out which came first.)
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