>> I agree. "Laptops" came 10-15y
before "notebook computers" in my
> experience.
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Your experience (or memory) obviously has dropped a
bit or two.
"Notebook" came before "Laptop" as witnessed by this 1983 ad for the
Epson HX-20:
http://www.bambootrading.com/proddetail.asp?prod=1050&cat=210
A "laptop" computer that came 15 years before then (1968) probably
would have been flesh-and-blood. Not a bad thought, but I don't
think anyone used the term then.
The HC20 (and its USA subversion HX20)was sometimes called a notebook, as
was the Radio Shack Model 100. Do those infringe on Apple and Samsung's
"rights"?
Then the term faded out for years.
Long after the advent of "laptop" computers, "notebook" was
re-introduced
by marketing to refer to small[er] clamshell laptops.
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