Origins of term "laptop" computer was Re: Bill Moggridge died

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. Is it the original intent that laptop meant self powered or is that only us reading too much into the details from todays expectations? -----Original Message----- From: "Evan Koblentz" <evan at snarc.net> Sender: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.orgDate: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:09:15 To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts<cctalk at classiccmp.org> Reply-To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: Bill Moggridge died troubleshooting some part of the hardware (I forget what). On the grounds that the end of this troubleshooting it was running programs and is clearly a computer, does that make the 11/05 the 'first laptop'? The absurdity of that mental image proves my point: a laptop runs on its own power, ergo the Compass isn't one. It's small, flat, clamshell, and "portable" by design, but not a laptop.