First Color Portable Computer? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

22 Apr 2001

Gosh, you have better memory then I do!

Here's my source for that quote in the display, which I have found very
detailed, and it made the claim about the color bit, it could have been
on the Commodore Press release for all I know of it:

Current web link to the chonology:

http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/comphist/

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                            Chronology of Events
                                   in the
                          History of Microcomputers

                      Copyright (C) 1995-96 Ken Polsson
                    internet e-mail: ken.polsson(a)bbc.org

References are indicated in [brackets], which are listed at the end of this
document. A [number.number] format gives the page within that reference.

...
1983
January...
   o Commodore introduces the SX-64, the first color portable computer.
     Weight is 10.5 kg. It incorporates a 5-inch color monitor and one or
     two 5.25 inch floppy drive. Price is US$1600. [190.81] [349.16]
     [444.496]
...

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  Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 16:18:16 -0700
 From: "Wayne M. Smith" &lt;wmsmith(a)earthlink.net&gt;
 Subject: First Color Portable Computer?

 I know that a lot of you dislike "which was first"
 discussions, but this one has been bothering me for a
 while so here goes.

 At VCF 4.0, there was a nice Commodore display with a
 timeline that had an entry under "1983" stating that
 the Commodore SX-64 was released as the world's "first
 color portable computer."  If you search the net,
 you'll find a number of sites that make the same claim,
 although you'll find just as many sites that say it was
 first sold in 1984. 
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