On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 09:41, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
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According to the guy
there, it was the first portable? Considering it's about the size of a
As soon as someone says anything is the "first", in fact as soon as that
word comes out of their mouth, you can tell them they're wrong and be
correct 99.995% of the time.
Librascope/General Precision claimed that their LGP-30/LGP-21 computers
were portable. The '21 weighs 60? lbs. 1963.
Berry's ABC almost-a-computer was built onto a cart. Unfortunately the
cart was wider than the door to the room it was built in, so portability
was merely theoretical. 1948 or before.