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The Beginning of Laptops
In the 1970s "Alan Kay of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center" dreamt that one day there would be a portable computer that you could take with you anywhere, that's the size of a notebook. It was named the Dynabook. Unfortunately, it never made it passed sketches and a cardboard model.
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The First leap
In 1979, "William Moggridge of Grid Systems Corporation" designed the computer but it was made 3 years later where it became the first working portable computer. The Grid Compass Computer 1109 and NASA actually bought some for $8000 a pop for some of there missions. https://computer.howstuffworks.com/laptop6.htm
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Osborne 1
The first consumer laptop was said to be the Osborne 1 and was invented by Adam Osborne. This laptop was 24 pounds and cost $1795. -
The Rising Industry
After the reveal the portable computer are makeable are in demand big companies wanted in on the industry like Apple and Galivan Computers coming out with there own spinoffs like the "IBM PC Convertible, introduced in 1986" and Apples The Macintosh Portable made sept, 20 1989. https://www.bing.com/search?q=first+apple+portable+computer&FORM=HDRSC1 https://computer.howstuffworks.com/laptop6.htm -
Modern day Laptops
Nowadays Laptops work with the same capabilities as computers and in some cases exceeds computers.
