[geeks] First color laptop?

[James Lockwood]

On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Michael A. Turner wrote:

> 	Don't know about the first color laptop but the Tandy TRS-80 Model
> 100 was the first true notebook/laptop AFAIK. Ran on 4 AA batteries and had
> an OS produced by microsoft.Bill Gates actually wrote some of the roms for
> this model. Funny thing is that those laptops are still usefull.
> http://www.humanclock.com/webserver.php uses one to run it's webserver.

They're quite rugged and run forever on AA batteries.  Full schematics are
available in the service manuals, and they're fairly easy to expand.  I
still haul mine out every once in a while.

Color laptops, probably depends how you define "color".  If you mean color
VGA-resolution LCD displays in commodity boxes, probably the Toshiba
T5200, Sharp 8000 or some 286 by Mitsubishi will win the race.  I think
they all came out in 1989.

-James