1989 Convention
Looking at clips from the fabulous 80′s of laptops is just as much as looking at 80′s clothing. It really is truly amazing how closely the change in laptop size reflects that of the size of people’s glasses who use them..chuckle, chuckle. As archaic as these machines look-and work-if you listen to the specs or goals of each machine, they are pretty similar to the goals of machines today. One of them, I believe it was the compaq, was bragging about 3 hours of battery life. 3 hours is pretty impressive, especially when just two weeks ago I was using a $800 Sony that got a little more than 2 hours on one charge.
The most interesting part is that usability and extra functions were as enticing then as they are today. One laptop (about the size of small desktop today) had a built in cell phone. Others were showing off their massive external fax modems, which is the equivalent to today’s built in cellular modems. Then screen readability was a bit more of a problem, but even today small laptops are still trying to be more readable because of their small size.
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