A Brief History of laptops

The idea of the laptop already came in the late 1960s with the Dynabook, but the Tablet PC, especially for children.

There was no real commercial incentive to develop truly portable computer, (and it was assumed in all cases impractical), it was not until much later, with new developments in transistors and processors, that the laptop has been viewed as something more than a child's toy.

It was in the early 80s that the first truly portable computer wasdeveloped, the Osborne 1, no batteries, (it had to be plugged in), but at least the data and computer could be transported.



A few years later, in 1982, the Compaq computers were released.

It is widely acknowledged that Compaq was not much better than the Osborn 1, but because it is) used with the new popular MS-DOS operating system (on most IBM computers at the time, it proved an instant success .

A year later, Epsonannounced the first truly portable computer with a nickel battery. The Epson had shown more like a modern computer with only 80 characters at once.



Compass 1101 will also be launched around the same time, we conclude that he is now credited with the known design of the laptop computer with the screen folded over the keyboard.



In 1984, the Gavilan SC, and the Sharp PC-500 was put on the market, with the Gavilan was the first to introduce Concept of the laptop (and a basic pointing device).

1984 also saw the arrival of Kyocera Kyotronic 85, it was small and offered many applications such as a word processor, a modem or a spreadsheet, and it was very popular indeed.



Until the late 1980s, many laptop manufacturers had developed fairly similar machines. Everything about the size of an A4 page to an A3. Above all, the NEC Ultralite, the Cambridge Z88 and the IBM PC Convertible. The> Compaq LTE introduced the concept of a portable hard drive (up to this point has been the operating system on ROM and floppy drives have been saved).



Until the early 1990s, the look and feel of the laptop was developed by the Apple computer is defined, (built in trackball, keyboard and palm rest). Not exceed introduces the IBM Thinkpad 700C, the TrackPoint one years later.



Since the mid-90s only technology has improved the laptop computers. MoreDuration batteries and large hard drives, the laptop is now a real challenge for the desktop.



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