Laptop’s 40th birthday, it all started with the “Dynabook"

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The laptop’s 40th birthday, it all started with the “Dynabook”

http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/20 ... -dynabook/



Laptops have come a long way since their inception. From the humble beginnings of the “Dynabook” concept to the lightweight powerful notebooks we have today, the 40 years have seen their ups and downs. To celebrate 40 years of laptops, the creator of the Dynabook sat down to discuss how it all started.

Wired had the opportunity to sit down with Alan Kay, creator of the Dynabook, to pick his brain about where laptops began, and where they’re headed in the future. Kay, a former Xerox computer scientist, drew up the idea of a portable computer back in 1968, when computers still weighed over 100 pounds and used punch cards primarily. His definition of the perfect, portable computer was a very thin, highly dynamic device that weighed no more than two pounds.

[MattKingUSA]

Nice! happy birthday laptop! I wonder when tablet was born. That's what I have. But under linux it's exactly like it's brother laptop because the stupid tablet function doesn't work..