20 Jul
1999
20 Jul
'99
9:53 a.m.
Hi,
I walked into Radio Shack today, and was delighted to see a row of posters
on their wall with photos of old Radio Shack stores and equipment from the
beginning of the chain to now. They mentioned that the TRS Model 100 was
'the first laptop in the industry'. Is this even marginally true?
--Max Eskin (max82(a)surfree.com)
http://scivault.hypermart.net: Ignorance is Impotence - Knowledge is Power
21 Jul
21 Jul
1:46 p.m.
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Max Eskin wrote:
Hi,
I walked into Radio Shack today, and was delighted to see a row of posters
on their wall with photos of old Radio Shack stores and equipment from the
beginning of the chain to now. They mentioned that the TRS Model 100 was
'the first laptop in the industry'. Is this even marginally true?
Of course not. Radio Shack's "history" is so revisionist it makes me ill.
The Epson HX-20 is generally considered to be the first "laptop" (1981).
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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