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ITs History!
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
#freesoftware
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@thurrott After all, it's not wise to jump out of a perfectly working airplane 😂 I use #Windows10 at work, but some of the computers are starting to get the upgrade to #Windows1. To be honest though, I don't see any night and day benefits. Its not like a going from FAT32 to NTFS, or a true 32 bit operating system with memory management, pre-emptive multi-tasking.

Greg Hills

Success!

Windows 1.01 now running perfectly on my toy DOS 3.3 machine. I initially set it up as an IBM AT (5170), but although DOS ran cromulently with exactly 640K RAM, our combined household resources and the indispensable "ATAD_207" disk could not configure expansion memory. May need hardware. So I switched the VM up to an AMI 80286 to get a better BIOS interface.

And that's it, done with Windows 1.01. Might try v1.04 sometime; but next victim is Windows 2.x ...

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