History of notebook computers

[Tom Jennings]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Roger Merchberger wrote:

> They did totally err on another thing - the first "full clamshell" laptop was 
> the Tandy 200, which came out in '85, 4 years before the NEC UltraLite.

Morrow I think had a CP/M-80 fully battery-powered, fold-up
clamshell computer before even that.

Computer magazines are pretty consistently worthless today -- they
know only about sales. They could be selling wicker baskets, same
difference.  New! Improved! Same but no different!

> Their idea of the 13 "critical machines" to me is disappointing - The Sony 
> Picturebook at best has had minimal market impact and is rarely seen outside 
> Japan;

But Sony is probably a big advertiser. It's pretty much as simple
as that.




If you don't pick at it, it doesn't hurt :-)