21 Jul
1999
21 Jul
'99
8:57 p.m.
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Bill Sheehan wrote:
While the Epson HX-20 can lay claim to being the first
laptop, it had some
severe limitations, the most evident being its 20x4 character LCD display.
The TRS-80 Model 100 had a much more useable 40x8 character display. The
Better as the M100 was, the fact is the HX-20 was still usable in the same
sense, and was in fact the first. By that same logic I can claim my
Compaq Armada SB is the "first" laptop.
especially for journalists. The result was that the
model 100 probably
got more press.
True.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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