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R2E CCMC Portal laptop. The portable microcomputer "Portal", of the French company R2E Micral CCMC, officially appeared in September 1980 at the Sicob show in Paris.The Portal was a portable microcomputer designed and marketed by the studies and developments department of the French firm R2E Micral in 1980 at the request of the company CCMC specializing in payroll and accounting.
The first "laptop-sized notebook computer" was the Epson HX-20, [12] [13] invented (patented) by Suwa Seikosha's Yukio Yokozawa in July 1980, [14] introduced at the COMDEX computer show in Las Vegas by Japanese company Seiko Epson in 1981, [15] [13] and released in July 1982.
The HX-20 (also known as the HC-20) is an early laptop released by Seiko Epson in July 1982. It was the first notebook-sized portable computer, [4] [5] occupying roughly the footprint of an A4 notebook while being lightweight enough to hold comfortably with one hand at 1.6 kilograms (3.5 lb) and small enough to fit inside an average briefcase.
The history of the personal computer as a mass-market consumer electronic device began with the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s. A personal computer is one intended for interactive individual use, as opposed to a mainframe computer where the end user's requests are filtered through operating staff, or a time-sharing system in which one large processor is shared by many individuals.
Astronaut John Creighton posing with a Grid Compass aboard a Space Shuttle Discovery mission in 1985. The Grid Compass is a family of laptop computers introduced in 1982 by the Grid Systems Corporation. The design for the Compass was rendered by Bill Moggridge. Owing to its clamshell design —the first in a portable computer —some historians ...
A military-type mobile computer housed in a reinforced case. A portable computer with three LCD screens. A portable computer with one 20.1-inch LCD screen, EATX motherboard. The MIT Suitcase Computer, MIT Digital Systems Laboratory, 1975. A portable computer is a computer designed to be easily moved [1] from one place to another, as opposed to ...
The Toshiba T1100 is a laptop manufactured by Toshiba in 1985, and has subsequently been described by Toshiba as "the world's first mass-market laptop computer". [1] Its technical specifications were comparable to the original IBM PC desktop, using floppy disks (it had no hard drive), a 4.77 MHz Intel 80C88 CPU (a lower-power variation of the Intel 8088), 256 KB of conventional RAM extendable ...
The first digital electronic computer was developed in the period April 1936 - June 1939, in the IBM Patent Department, Endicott, New York by Arthur Halsey Dickinson. [35] [36] [37] In this computer IBM introduced, a calculating device with a keyboard, processor and electronic output (display). The competitor to IBM was the digital electronic ...