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While it doesn't use a CRT as its display, perhaps this 1973 portable is what you are looking for? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCM/70 https://en.wikipedia.or
by jecel 6y ago
While it doesn't use a CRT as its display, perhaps this 1973 portable is what you are looking for?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCM/70 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCM/70
- GeorgeTirebiter 6y agoThank you. I didn't know about the MCM/70 (and, aside: interesting that Wikipedia calls this article '70' which is in the 'MCM' directory). Another was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCELBI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCELBI and I suppose anybody could have strapped on enough batteries in 1973 and called it a Portable. Still, Osbourne seems to have been first with the concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_Computer_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_Computer_Corporation The Osbourne 1 was in 1981, 8 years after the MCM/70 and SCELBI. It's that 8-year-gap that I find fascinating.
- kens 6y agoAs far as I can tell, the battery-powered version of the MCM/70 (the MCM/70 Executive) didn't make it beyond the prototype stage. The regular MCM/70 was a "desktop" computer that needed to be plugged in.