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Everybody knows the GRiD Compass was the first laptop! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_Compass http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_Compass

• rbanffy 16y ago
  Sadly, no. And that was a claim that didn't resist 15 seconds of googling. There were a couple portables that could be called laptops before the Toshibas. The TRS-80 model 100, its NEC cousin. Even if we are talking of MS-DOS, PC-compatible computers, the Data General One predates this one by quite a bit.
  • joezydeco 16y ago
    And the Osborne 1 predates the DG-1 by 3 years, although it was a CP/M machine (remember THAT?)
    • rbanffy 16y ago
      Of course I remember them. However, an Osborne one is a laptop if you can use it on your lap. The Epson HX-20 laptop also ran CP/M (as an option, AFAIK).