[ih] DNS origins?

Nigel Roberts nigel at channelisles.net
Thu Jun 10 00:18:08 PDT 2021


Depends how you define 'laptop'.

Osborne 1 anyone??

(1981)

On 10/06/2021 02:26, Carsten Bormann via Internet-history wrote:
> On 10. Jun 2021, at 00:01, Jack Haverty via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>>
>> no one had laptops yet
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_Compass:
> 
> Release date	April 1982
> 
> (I vividly remember seeing one on a trade show, probably 1983, and thinking “so this is the way we are going to work”…
> Took till 1988 until I had my first Toshiba laptop.  
> Added a portable ink-jet, and I completely dominated the standards meetings with that combo.
> Modem and "FTP Software”’s PC/TCP...
> At the time, the main equipment supporting a standards meeting was a kitchen-size Xerox copier pipeline…  But I digress.)
> 
> Grüße, Carsten
> 



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