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Well, it was a big disappointment for those who were expecting something like the PC laptops out there.
Except when it came out there was nothing like the PC laptops out there.
1988 Compaq "Laptop": [link]
1989 also bought the NEC Ultralite, which was wonderfully light, but it was DOS and had a max of 2MB of flash rom and no HD: [link]
Also the same year: The Zenith Minisport: [link] Hardly a competitor.
And the closest is the Compaq LTE, in 1990, IIRC: [link] for the laptop form factor we now know.
It really wasn't much longer before the form factors finally changed.
1998 Compaq "Laptop"
Psst, Daniel, 1990, not 98.
that's called a booboo. (Actually the model was introduced in 1988, BTW)
I was just going by what it said in the museum entry.
I still made a boo boo. It was not my intent to imply nor state that the date was 1998. The mentioning it was 1988 was just a parenthetical aside, I'm sorry if it seemed like an attack. It was intended as an explanation of my typo.
ETA: Sigh.
Psst. Daniel, you did it again.
No, I didn't feel like you were attacking me. Sorry if I implied that. I just saw 1998, and thought "that can't be right." When I looked at the linked page, it said 1990, which made more sense to me.
Does anyone know if it's possible to check a login record in gmail? Several new e-mails of mine were "read" yesterday while I was napping, and I'm a little worried that my account has been hijacked.
vw, I don't think so, but can you change your password as a precaution?
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