5 Apr
2011
5 Apr
'11
12:27 p.m.
Portable Computing Turns 30 according to PC Authority Mag - may be of
interest to some subscribers...
http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/253319,portable-computing-turns-30.aspx
This depends on how you define 'portable' and 'computer' :-)
More seriously there were portable minicomputers (meaning they had
handles nad you could just about stagger with one) over 40 years ago. Of
coruse they needed mains power to operate
I think the first programamble battery-operated device with conditional
branching was the HP65 calcualtor from 1974. Whether you call that a
'computer' depeneds on our exact defintion.
-tony