22 Nov
1998
22 Nov
'98
2:54 p.m.
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Andrew Davie wrote:
I've just obtained an unusual laptop circa 1983, a
Dulmot Magnum.
Garbage-bin green body, quite heavy. Runs on 6V, MS-DOS 2.11 Very
strange flip-up LCD display, about 8 lines x 80 characters. Actually,
this thing is pretty well designed for its day. Does anybody know about
the history of this machine, and where it fits in relative to other
laptops of the era (ie: what was the first genuine laptop, when, etc) ?
Never heard of it, but it sounds cool! Any pix? Without seeing it, I'd
guess it might be a relabled Gavilan.
As far as clamshell laptops, it went something like:
1982, GRiD Compass
1983, Gavilan
1983, HP Portable (110)
-- Doug