From 1981: the World's first UMPC

The Register ^ | 3 May 2007 | Tony Smith

[ShadowAce]

Blast From The Past

[Vinnie]

I’ll bet that girl still looks great, 26 yrs later.

[AU72]

The good ole days of the cassette tape load and ‘walkie-talkie’ style modems pushing data at a screaming 300bps.

[Fawn]

Anyone know where I can find TEXT designs? For instance...this is a cat face--> >^..^<

I am looking for simple flower designs......

[dmz]

What?!?

No picture of that first Compaq portable (uh, luggable)?

[FreedomCalls]

Royal had a UMPC long before that even.

[TChris]

One for sale on eBay

...probably get it for a song.

[ShadowAce]

heh—My MIL has an old Underwood

[discostu]

There’s a lot of ASCII art still kicking around out there, here’s one good repository.

http://www.chris.com/ASCII/

[SlowBoat407]

She looks a little like Kim Basinger.

[Fawn]

Thank you!! I couldn’t figure out what it was called!!

[Vinnie]

Before Alec maybe. No scars or black eyes.

[magslinger]

I thought the first UMPC was the Banana JR 6000.

[magslinger]

[CarrotAndStick]

Nice.

[Mark was here]

I had one for programing programmable controllers. After a while I moved up to a QX-10. After that I got a PC.

I still have both Epsons.

[discostu]

I remember when it was called typewriter art and was distributed via photocopier. Then the age of usenet made it easier to distribute and changed the name.

[Dumpster Baby]

My first "luggable" - the Panasonic Senior Partner. Still have a couple that still work, although they are nearly useless. Has an 8088 cpu roaring along at 4.77 MHz, 256K ram, 20 meg hard drive, only weighs 31 pounds.

[TonyInOhio]

I had a Kenpro 8088 of my own. It was a step up from the Commodore 64. :)