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March 20, 2005
MobilePC's History of the Laptop (aka, Notebook)
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MobilePC last week published The Birth of the Notebook, an extensive article looking at the birth and evolution of the laptop/notebook computer. The article spans from 1975 with IBM’s 5100 “portable” computer to today’s offerings such as the OQO. Some pretty good reading.
The article offers up some juicy bits like:
NEC also has the honor of claiming one of the industry’s most boneheaded moves: It dropped the UltraLite name in favor of “Versa,” and ultralight quickly became a generic term for small notebooks.
Hum… I wonder if this would fit on one of those airline tray tables?
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