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- 04/10/11 04:51 AM
I remember back when the laptop was a big as a VCR, and a VCR was as big as a bazooka. However, the laptop revolutionized the way we did work, because for the first time... we were mobile. Adam Osborn invented the "Osborn 1" in 1981. It cost $1,800 and it looked like this:
The Grid Compass followed shortly thereafter in production, and looked more like an actual laptop that we might recognize: Many people regard this as the first laptop because it was designed in 1979. But not released until 1982.