On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Doug Yowza wrote:
On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Jason Willgruber wrote:
I think I also have the first (correct me if
I'm wrong) laptop with a
printer. The Wang LapTop Computer (WLTC). It weighs about 16-20 lb., not
I think the Panasonic Senior Partner was the first luggable with built-in
printer: intro'd at Comdex in 1983, but there were HP's from the 70's
which were just as (if not more portable) that also had built-in printers.
I don't think anything over 12 lbs or so could reasonable be called a
laptop, though.
It may have been the first DOS based luggable, but it was preceded by
some years by the Access Actrix - a CP/M based machine that sported an
Epson DMP printer on top. It suffered from small screen and single sided
drives, unfortunately.
- don
I think the
WLTC came out in '84 or '85 (not sure). Mine is date Dec. 24,
'86. I think it runs on a PASCAL-based operating system, with an MS-DOS
emulator.
Say what? Could you elaborate on the Pascal-based OS and DOS emulator?
The UCSD pSystem could be called a Pascal-based OS, but it didn't have a
DOS emulator that I've heard of. Is that what you mean?
-- Doug
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