3 Nov
2003
3 Nov
'03
4:55 a.m.
It depends on how you define the words
"first", "true" and "portable".
This may seem like ridiculous quibbling but the problem is that you must
judge based on a specified set of conditions, otherwise the title is
meaningless.
What would be considered the first "laptop" by today's laptop standards?
(ie: can actually sit on your lap, and has a self contained battery power
supply, screen, and keyboard).
I saw someone the other day try to claim that Apple released the first
laptop computer (Mac Portable), but I'm sure it wasn't anywhere near the
first (it was released in 1989 IIRC)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
3 Nov
3 Nov
5:19 a.m.
On Monday, November 3, 2003, at 12:55 PM, chris wrote:
Radio Shack Model 100?
It depends on
how you define the words "first", "true" and "portable".
This may seem like ridiculous quibbling but the problem is that you
must
judge based on a specified set of conditions, otherwise the title is
meaningless.
What would be considered the first "laptop" by today's laptop
standards?
(ie: can actually sit on your lap, and has a self contained battery
power
supply, screen, and keyboard).
I saw someone the other day try to claim that Apple released the first
laptop computer (Mac Portable), but I'm sure it wasn't anywhere near
the
first (it was released in 1989 IIRC)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
7:15 a.m.
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Ron Hudson wrote:
The Epson HC20 and HX-20 preceded the Kyocera made model 100.
Which of the Kyocera machines was released first?
(Model 100, NEC 8201, Olivetti M20)?
What would be
considered the first "laptop" by today's laptop
standards?
(ie: can actually sit on your lap, and has a self contained battery
power
supply, screen, and keyboard).
Radio Shack Model 100? 
5:19 a.m.
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, chris wrote:
What would be considered the first "laptop"
by today's laptop standards?
(ie: can actually sit on your lap, and has a self contained battery power
supply, screen, and keyboard).
The Epson HX-20 (most likely).
I saw someone the other day try to claim that Apple
released the first
laptop computer (Mac Portable), but I'm sure it wasn't anywhere near the
first (it was released in 1989 IIRC)
Some people just aren't privvy to the inane facts we computer collectors
carry around in our heads.
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7:13 a.m.
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
Unless we are restricting to just Amurican machines,
the HC-20. The HX-20 was the later "Americanized" model (deletion of
katakana from the char generator and repainted beige (formerly gray)).
There were some in the US, at places like HudsonSoft. I had two for quite
a while before they released the US model. (Roger has them now.)
What would be
considered the first "laptop" by today's laptop standards?
(ie: can actually sit on your lap, and has a self contained battery power
supply, screen, and keyboard).
The Epson HX-20 (most likely).
7:08 a.m.
>It depends on how you define the words
"first", "true" and "portable".
>This may seem like ridiculous quibbling but the problem is that you must
>judge based on a specified set of conditions, otherwise the title is
>meaningless.
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, chris wrote:
What would be considered the first "laptop"
by today's laptop standards?
(ie: can actually sit on your lap, and has a self contained battery power
supply, screen, and keyboard).
I saw someone the other day try to claim that Apple released the first
laptop computer (Mac Portable), but I'm sure it wasn't anywhere near the
first (it was released in 1989 IIRC)
half a decade before that, you had
Laptops:
DG1
Gavilan
Grid
Kaypro 2000?
Notebooks:
Epson HC20 (about a year later, repainted beige and released with
a more limited char generator as the HX-30)
Kyocera (RS M100, NEC 8200,8201, Olivetti M20?)
Workslate
(I know when _I_ owned them, not when they were "FIRST RELEASED", so I
won't argue about "FIRST")
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