The laptop developed in the late 1970s and 1980s from earlier attempts at a portable computer. The Osborne 1 of 1981 was a luggable machine with a small screen, the Epson HX-20 of the same year had a tiny liquid-crystal display, and in 1982 the GRiD Compass, designed by Bill Moggridge, introduced the clamshell form in which the screen folds over the keyboard. The Gavilan SC of 1983 was marketed as a laptop, and the Toshiba T1100 of 1985 is often considered the first mass-market machine of the kind. Advances in batteries, flat-panel displays and microprocessors made the machines lighter and longer-lasting. By the 2000s laptops outsold desktop computers, and they changed where and how people work and study.
Before and after
- 1980Founding of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
- 1980Establishment of Channel Islands National Park
- from January 1980 to April 1991Siege of Khost
- 1980Establishment of Jaú National Park
- c. 1980sInvention of laptop
- 1980Establishment of Komodo National Park
- 1980Establishment of Ujung Kulon National Park
- 1980First light of Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array
- 1980Establishment of Darién National Park
More in Science & technology
- 1949Discovery of berkelium
- December 1952Discovery of fermium
- 1955Discovery of mendelevium
- 1958Discovery of nobelium
- 9 November 1994Discovery of darmstadtium
- 8 December 1994Discovery of roentgenium
The era
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