PC Convertible
IBM's first laptop computer in 1986 was also the first machine by the company to use 3.5-inch floppy discs.
Sales of the PC Convertible were poor, as it was hampered by a hard to read and oddly shaped LCD screen, did not feature PC serial and parallel ports and was not much faster than the Portable model that it replaced.
The £1,800 ($1,995 in the U.S.) machine ran at 4.77MHz and had 256KB of memory.
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- Greenwich University have a couple of show cases in one of their rooms with a similar colelction to this but inlcuded items like the zx80, and sinclair's QUERTY, among others. ON seeing this post, lik... (Read the rest)
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The BBC Micro has a picture of a Dragon 32 on it. [nt]
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Where are the home PCs?
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