"Woz" IIgs, & Dynabyte computers...

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Mon Nov 3 15:08:29 2003

> >It depends on how you define the words "first", "true" and "portable".
> >This may seem like ridiculous quibbling but the problem is that you must
> >judge based on a specified set of conditions, otherwise the title is
> >meaningless.
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, chris wrote:
> What would be considered the first "laptop" by today's laptop standards?
> (ie: can actually sit on your lap, and has a self contained battery power
> supply, screen, and keyboard).
> I saw someone the other day try to claim that Apple released the first
> laptop computer (Mac Portable), but I'm sure it wasn't anywhere near the
> first (it was released in 1989 IIRC)

half a decade before that, you had
Laptops:
        DG1
        Gavilan
        Grid
        Kaypro 2000?
Notebooks:
        Epson HC20 (about a year later, repainted beige and released with
                a more limited char generator as the HX-30)
        Kyocera (RS M100, NEC 8200,8201, Olivetti M20?)
        Workslate
(I know when _I_ owned them, not when they were "FIRST RELEASED", so I
won't argue about "FIRST")
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