History of notebook computers

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Wed Mar 23 17:19:23 CST 2005


> 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.

I first saw a working Gavilan ("clamshell") at NCC in Anaheim in 1983.
It was in the air-conditioned main building - I heard that people DIED in
the tent out back!


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