On 09/11/2012 10:42 PM, barythrin at
gmail.com wrote:
Does anyone have a reference to the earliest use of
the term laptop to describe their product? I would think that would help clear the
definition perhaps. Obviously what end users ended up calling luggables were simply
"portable" as the marketing term. It was a portable all enclosed version of a
desktop. Pretty cool you can take your portable computer with you in itself but obviously
portable power/batteries were a separate time frame.
Reference? No, but I always thought "lap top" meant, well, "on top of
your lap", rather than "self powered". ;) (sorry Evan)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA