History of notebook computers

[William Layer]

To borrow from a recent (and broadly offensive) film comedy:

"This article missed the point, more than Michael Bay missed the mark, when he made Pearl Harbor. This article needs a rewrite more than Ben Affleck needs acting school, he was terrible in that film."

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:15:28 -0500
Roger Merchberger <zmerch at 30below.com> wrote:

> It did (but just barely) at the same time as the Epson HX-20... but their 
> supposed facts of "but 16K didn't get you far, even in 1982..." Pffft. 16K 
> was a darned good start back then, and the Tandy 100 could go to 32K 
> without trouble; much more depending on how much you wanted to spend on 3rd 
> party schtuff.

They also totally ignored the Epson PX-4 and PX-8 CPM laptops, which were very interesting and underapprecaited machines. 
 
> 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.

The comments on the UltraLite are beyond idioic. I guess the (original) external floppy drive that I have with my Nec UltraLite qualifies neither as 'moving parts' nor a 'floppy drive'. 

Finally, did any of you go to see Pearl Harbor? I've seen better film on a bathtub. ;-)

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