World's first mass-market
#laptop was the
#T1100 computer by
#Toshiba. Introduced with a 4.77MHz
#CPU, 512KB of
#RAM,
#monochrome #LCD display, and battery capacity up to 7 hours, it changed the world of
#IBM compatible portable computers. It even worked with
#MS #Windows1 in 640x200px
#CGA #graphics, but only within a narrow view angle
https://youtu.be/qk04sDF5SrM
Even without a hard disk this machine was very important, since the plus model was re-engineered in
#USSR as Электроника
#МС1504. Unlike
#US, users in
#Russia didn't pay royalties, or used the internal 3.5" floppy drive to boot
#MS-DOS 2.11
https://youtu.be/_u5LwiP5Q4g
Our
#graphic #illustration is a tribute to this
#IT #milestone, celebrating the 40th
#anniversary of this historic
#microcomputer achievement in 1985. See it in comparison of
#ComputerChronicles to
#Tandy or
#Dynamac #laptops two years later
https://youtu.be/tPEMilDYpgY
The
#screenshot of this
#retrocomputer #cgi #art shows
#SVG #vector #outlines around the cursor in
#xRay view-mode. Made with
#Inkscape and
#FreeSoftware