Further development
by admin on Mar.11, 2010, under Uncategorized
Further development
In the period from 1982 to 1986 by various manufacturers of computer equipment has been developed a lot of computers, developing the ideas presented in the Grid Compass and the Osborne 1.
In 1982, the company Epson has released the world’s first notebook equipped with LCD display. Epson HX-20 was dvuprotsessornoy system (Hitachi 6301), weighed little more than a half kilograms, had a serial port and built-in tape drive. Monochrome LCD display shows four lines of text to 20 characters each. In ROM Epson HX-20 was written Microsoft BASIC.
In March 1983, sales came in the Compaq Portable, architectural stationed at Intel 8088 (5 MHz). It was equipped with two floppy and devyatidyuymovym monochrome screen, and worked under the operating system MS-DOS. Case Compaq Portable was the form of a suitcase, the keyboard, like the Osborne 1, was the front cover.