10 Sep
2012
10 Sep
'12
8:46 p.m.
On 11 Sep 2012 at 3:26, Evan Koblentz wrote:
If I wanted merely prior art of a laptop computer,
then there
commercial examples before the Compass, such as the Husky Hunter
(1981).
Beside, and as you noted, Dynabook is only a concept. Not to insult
PARC, but you might as well have cited something from Star Trek.
I believe that the basis of Tandy's lawsuit against Toshiba was the
nature of the hinge, not the idea of a clamshell laptop per se.
--Chuck