I was going to also post a reference to this 1984 article (in 84 via google
searches the term laptop and notebook are both fairly prevalent)
http://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v10n1/86_The_Teleram_T3000.phpThere&…
a reference but only referring to itself as a notebook size "first
truly portable personal computer" says the ad of a Teleram 3000 in the (Vol.
16, No. 39 ) 9/27/82 Computerworld magazine on page 104. I'd never heard
of a Teleram hence the other link earlier in trying to figure out who they
were and what it did.
http://tinyurl.com/9hk7sw8 is interesting as well.
I'm trying to find more information on what this book is and the system
they're speaking about. Uses the term laptop as well as notebook and I
think but can't quite tell the book is from 83? but it has a bunch of new
copyright dates as well at the beginning. Unfortunately it's in a language
that I don't read. Fun that you can understand half the words though
contextually and computer wise.