The modern laptop has its origins in the mid to late 1980s, when shrinking computer ... there was a market for so-called “portable” computers. These machines often resembled pieces of luggage ...

Back in the early 1980s, hotshot business types on the go would have used what were referred to at the time as portable computers from companies like Osborne or Kaypro. Due to the technical ...

The personal computer industry exploded with numerous ... norms of music streaming and downloads. For much of the 1980s, portable electronic entertainment options were limited.

Nowhere is this truer than with laptops and tablet PCs. The supposedly portable computers of the early 1980s, such as Osborne 1 and Compaq, were conventional desktop computers with a small monitor ...

In 1981 Osborne Computer Corp. released the first commercially available portable computer, dubbed the Osborne-1. And by 1982, the Osborne-1 had taken the world by storm with ads like this one ...