14 Sep
2012
14 Sep
'12
7:21 a.m.
On 2012 Sep 13, at 9:59 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
There were many suitcase-sized computers before Osborne. MCM, GM
Research
Microstar / Small One, Micral V, and of course the PARC NoteTaker
(although that was only a prototype) ... Osborne was the first * big
successful smash hit * of its category and generation.
But NOT the first made, shown, sold, nor delivered.
Just to throw another example in, here's a limited-production
luggable (not marketed) from the 1981 time period, based on the
Xerox-820 system board:
http://www3.telus.net/~bhilpert/tmp/ctg/#XLug
I was told these were built before the Osborne was publicly known
(that is to say, it was not influenced by the Osborne).
>> On
Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Evan Koblentz wrote: