IBM 700 Laptop Significance? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

10 Jun 1998

At 10:28 PM 6/9/98 -0700, you wrote:
...
 Was this one of the ones from about '92?  If
it's the one I'm thinking of,
it would be the first with the 'pencil' pointer in the keyboard.  For all I
know, the first built in pointer (I'd not seen any prior to this).  Of 
That's probably it.  Though not the first with a built-in pointer.  As Doug
mentioned, GRiD had one, as did the Mac Portable (1989) and the Atari STacy
(year?).  Not sure what year the Outbound came out but I'm pretty sure it
was pre-thinkpad (maybe '89ish?).  

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