Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] laptop advice needed
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Mon May 20 2002 - 12:56:18 EEST
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 05:20:40 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Weren't notebooks invented to fit nicly into small japanese flats in
> the first place and then the western world misunderstood this invention
> as being a portable computer instead of one that is easily stowed away
> into a corner?
The first "portable" I saw was the compaq suitcase luggable. It took
mains, and was about the size of an IBM XT cpu box, so wasn't exactly a
laptop.
AFAIK they were invented for managers to pose on trains ;)
- Steve
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