14 Sep
2012
14 Sep
'12
10:25 p.m.
> each person has their own qualifiers. You reject
"laptop" as a
definition if it requires a cord.
Mine is right. :)
> SOME people reject anything that they hadn't
heard of.
Sounds like this list...
In 2005 Toshiba announced the 20th anniversary of when they invented the laptop. When
pressed, they claimed theirs was the "first" with a 286 (who knows), and that
clearly a laptop is only a laptop if it's got a 286 or newer.
14 Sep
14 Sep
11:51 p.m.
On Sat, 15 Sep 2012, Evan Koblentz wrote:
Well, certainly more defensible than the majority of the qualifiers!
Actually, this list is aware of some of the obscure stuff. I was
referring to the ones who argue whether Apple or IBM invented
microcomputers.
> each
person has their own qualifiers. You reject "laptop" as a
definition if
it requires a cord.
Mine is right. :) > SOME
people reject anything that they hadn't heard of.
Sounds like this list...
In 2005 Toshiba announced the 20th anniversary of when
they invented the
laptop. When pressed, they claimed theirs was the "first" with a 286
(who knows), and that clearly a laptop is only a laptop if it's got a
286 or newer.
YOU might need to speak up (7 years ago)! if it's the one that I think
that they're talking about, it was a clamshell, but only ran off of mains
power!
15 Sep
15 Sep
3:59 a.m.
> I was referring to the ones who argue whether
Apple or IBM invented
microcomputers.
Neither, it was Microsoft!
>>> In 2005 Toshiba announced the 20th
anniversary of when they invented
the laptop. When pressed, they claimed theirs was
the "first" with a
286 (who knows), and that clearly a laptop is only a laptop if it's
got a 286 or newer.
> YOU might need to speak up (7 years ago)! if
it's the one that I think
that they're talking about, it was a clamshell,
but only ran off of
mains power!
I'm referring to the T1100. News to me if it only ran off AC -- in which
case (surprise) I declare it a portable computer ("one that's primarily
designed to be an easy-to-move-around all-in-one system") but not a laptop
(because, in case anyone forgot already, laptops bring their power with
them in the aforementioned portable unit).
Had I realized the T1100's no-battery status (if indeed that's the truth
about it), then I would have made a big ruckus about it at the time.
4:07 a.m.
>>> if it's the one that I think that
they're talking about, it was a
clamshell, but only ran off of mains power!
> I'm referring to the T1100. News to me if it
only ran off AC
Ah ... apparently that one did have a battery:
http://www.toshiba-europe.com/computers/products/notebooks/t1100/
Which one were thinking about?
11:39 a.m.
On Sat, 15 Sep 2012, Evan Koblentz wrote:
THAT was an 80C88, NOT a 286, therefore NOT the machine referred to
in previous post which said 80286 was a requirement for a "laptop"!
>>> if
it's the one that I think that they're talking about, it was a
clamshell,
but only ran off of mains power!
> I'm referring to the T1100. News to me if
it only ran off AC
Ah ... apparently that one did have a battery:
http://www.toshiba-europe.com/computers/products/notebooks/t1100/ Which one were thinking about?
T3100
http://www.toshiba-europe.com/computers/products/notebooks/t3100/
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11:35 a.m.
the laptop. When pressed, they claimed theirs was the
"first" with a
286 (who knows), and that clearly a laptop is only a laptop if it's
got a 286 or newer.
> YOU might need to speak up (7 years ago)! if it's the one that I think
> that they're talking about, it was a clamshell, but only ran off of
> mains power!
On Sat, 15 Sep 2012, Evan Koblentz wrote:
I'm referring to the T1100.
That was 386?
I thought that their 286 clamshell was the 3100 (plasma? display and AC
cord)
Or am I totally scrambled as to their numbering (1200 before 1000, etc.)
News to me if it only ran off AC -- in which
case (surprise) I declare it a portable computer ("one that's primarily
designed to be an easy-to-move-around all-in-one system")
How did the word "easy" get in there?
Had I realized the T1100's no-battery status (if
indeed that's the truth
about it), then I would have made a big ruckus about it at the time.
noon
On Sat, 15 Sep 2012, Fred Cisin wrote:
TYPO!
"That was 286?"
the laptop.
When pressed, they claimed theirs was the "first" with a
286 (who knows), and that clearly a laptop is only a laptop if it's
got a 286 or newer.
> YOU might need to speak up (7 years ago)! if it's the one that I think
> that they're talking about, it was a clamshell, but only ran off of
> mains power!
On Sat, 15 Sep 2012, Evan Koblentz wrote:
I'm referring to the T1100.
That was 386?
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