blog.wired.com - 12/3/2008
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What's this? It's a portable computer -- the world's first portable computer, in fact. And how do we know its portable? Because IBM tells us so. The 25kg (55lbs) beast was born in 1975 and christened the IBM 5100 Portable Computer . It is one of Royal Pingdom's excellent gallery entitled ...
oldcomputers.net - 12/9/2008
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IBM PC - "The quality, power, and performance
of the IBM Personal Computer are what you'd expect...
from IBM. The price isn't."
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Vintage PC hardware gallery
Boing Boing Gadgets —
... the first laptop computer, The GRiD compass was designed in 1979 by Bill Moggridge. In its day, the 320x200 display, bubble RAM and integrated 1200 bps modem made it the province of only the most spendy outfits: Nasa and the U.S. Military, and not so much you or I.
It's one of several fascinating items at Royal Pingdom's gallery of vintage computer hardware. I would like an ugly netbook just like it, with a miniature but clacky IBM-style keyboard.
Gallery of Historical PC Hardware [Royal Pingdom via Wired: Gadget Lab] ...
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