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evolution of Laptops

By HTIATTAATITT

  • Cal Tech

    Cal Tech
    The history of portable computing began in 1967, when Jack Kilby's team at Texas Instruments developed a handheld calculator research project initiated by company president Pat Haggerty for consumer use leveraging microchips pioneered by TI in the 1960s.

  • KiddiComp

    KiddiComp
    The KiddiComp concept was envisioned by Alan Kay in 1968 while a PhD candidate.

  • Dynabook

    Dynabook
    the KiddiComp concept was later developed and described as the Dynabook in his 1972 proposal "A personal computer for children of all ages".

  • SCAMP

    SCAMP
    In 1973, Bill Lowe was instrumental in fostering an engineering prototype called SCAMP (Special Computer APL Machine Portable) created by Dr. Paul Friedl and a team at the IBM Los Gatos Scientific Center. SCAMP has been dubbed in PC Magazine as "the world's first personal computer".

  • MCM/70

    MCM/70
    The MCM/70 is a pioneering microcomputer first built in 1973 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and released the next year. This makes it one of the first microcomputers in the world, the second to be shipped in completed form, and the first portable computer. The MCM/70 was the product of Micro Computer Machines, one of three related companies set up in Toronto in 1971 by Mers Kutt. It is considered by some historians to be the first usable personal microcomputer system.

  • IBM 5100

    IBM 5100
    The IBM 5100 Portable Computer is one of the first portable computers, introduced in September 1975, six years before the IBM Personal Computer, and eight before the first successful IBM compatible portable computer, the Compaq Portable. It was the evolution of a prototype called the SCAMP (Special Computer APL Machine Portable) that was developed at the IBM Palo Alto Scientific Center in 1973.