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> I don't think I've ever seen a laptop without one, and I used laptops back in the early/mid 90's. Were you using PowerBooks? Touchpads were unusual in laptop
by 5166cc9c39fa61 8y ago
> I don't think I've ever seen a laptop without one, and I used laptops back in the early/mid 90's.
Were you using PowerBooks? Touchpads were unusual in laptops until about 2000, when things started going downhill. All of the 1990s laptops I used that I can remember (IBM, Toshiba, Compaq) had superior pointing devices: trackpoint or trackballs.