Muito À Frente No Seu Tempo

[IcePicK]

Propunha que colocassem aqui imagens e descrições de portáteis antigos e que por mais estranhos que pudessem parecer estavam muito à frente no tempo.

Começo eu com um bem antigo:

1º Hewlett-Packard HP 110 Maio 1984 (review)

The HP 110 computer, also known as the HP Portable, is a portable MS-DOS computer produced by Hewlett-Packard. Probably the finest portable computer of its day, it has four-times the screen display as the popular but older TRS-80 model 100, and is screaming-fast at over 5 MHz.

The HP-110 is fairly heavy at 9 pounds, but has exceptional battery life, up to 16 hours. [...]

2º Apple Macintosh Portable (wiki) Setembro de 1989

The Mac Portable is Apple's first portable Macintosh computer. Although there were already PC laptops on the market, few were as fast or powerful. [...] The Portable is powered by an internal lead-acid gel/cell battery, similar to those found in car batteries, which can run from 6 to 12 hours. The trade-off is that the battery adds an entire 2 pounds to the weight of the Portable.

Como não há bela sem senão...

There was only one problem with the Portable which unfortunately led to its demise, it just wasn't very portable. Being rather large and weighing 16 lbs...

Damos um salto de mais de 10 anos, durante os quais pode ter havido alguma revolução que não me estou agora a lembrar.

3º Sony Vaio PCG-C2GPS Novembro de 1999

Já com GPS incorporado em cerca de 24mm de altura e 960g.

4º Sony Vaio GT3 Junho de 2001

Com uma câmara de 340k Pixels e monitor rotativo pesando apenas 1.1kg.

5º Sony Vaio PCG-X505CP Julho de 2004

Já em 2004 se faziam portáteis realmente finos e condensados e até "chegavam a ter 2 portas USB e Firewire"


Espero que tenham gostado pois levei umas boas horas em pesquisa e até aprendi um pouco mais de história. Aqui fica o desafio.

 

[JarimbaG1S]

Com esta informação, poderia ser criada mais um sticky da História/Evolução dos portáteis.

Já agora o futuro:

The laptop of our foucs is still just a concept by LG, but I would like to have a hand on such a thing in the future. Both the Screen and the Keyboard are made of OLED. This allows LG to Give both the screen and keyboard a glossy look, and a flat shaped design (Apple influence). Yep, it would be hard to compete with such a design. LG, you have a winner, go for it.

Canova Dual Touch Screen Laptop
We have earlier told you about some innovative notebooks including the Fujitsu’s Turntable PC, the dual-display Asustek notebook and the One-On-One dual LCD display, called “Tenbuno.” And, this Dual Touch Screen Laptop from Canova is another ultimate notebook design meant for the creative mind. The notebook features dual display with touch-sensitive screens, sketch pad, music score, graph paper, an electronic pen and a dedicated hardware for its smooth functioning.

Sony Vaio ZOOM
Concept designs are the best way to (make or predict?) the future. The Sony Vaio Zoom from Eno Setiawan is a concept that could become reality faster than you might think.
The Vaio Zoom is a slick laptop with some awesome features. The screen works with a holographic technology, so that when the power of the laptop is off, you see the screen as an completely transparent glass piece. The keyboard turns opaque.
Tactile feedback you ask? Well you can see that there might be a problem there, but who cares right? Nobody complained about the Apple iPhone.

 

[Migael]

Osborne 1 - Considerado por muitos o primeiro PC portátil

[FONT=arial,helvetica] Released in 1981 by the Osborne Computer Corporation, the Osborne 1 is considered to be the first true portable computer - it closes-up for protection, and has a carrying handle. It even has an optional battery pack, so it doesn't have to plugged into the 110VAC outlet for power.

While quite revolutionary, the Osborne does have its limitations. For example, the screen is only 5" (diagonal) in size, and can't display more than 52 characters per line of text. To compensate, you can actually scroll the screen display back and forth with the cursor keys to show lines of text up to 128 characters wide.

[/FONT][FONT=arial,helvetica] The Osborne was designed with transportation in mind - it had to be rugged and able to survive being moved about. That's one reason that the screen is so small - a larger and heavier screen would be more susceptable to damage.

The two pockets beneath the floppy drives work great for floppy disk storage, although the Osborne modem also fits perfectly in the the left pocket and plugs into the front-mounted "modem" port.

Designed as a true portable computer system - it can be considered airline carry-on luggage, and it will fit under the passenger seat of any commercial airliner. [/FONT]

[FONT=arial,helvetica] While the Osborne was a good deal at $1795, it also came bundled with about $1500 of free software:
CP/M System
CP/M Utility
SuperCalc spreadsheet application
WordStar word processing application with MailMerge
Microsoft MBASIC programming language
Digital Research CBASIC programming language

The Osborne was a huge overnight success, with sales reaching 10,000 units a month.
In September 1981, Osborne Computer Company had its first US$1 million sales month. [/FONT]

 

[JarimbaG1S]

TRS-80 Model 100/102 (1983)

The Tandy 100 was actually a computer made in Japan by Kyocera. All the ROM programs were written by Microsoft, and even a few of them were written by Bill Gates (!) himself ! These programs include a text editor, a telecommunication program, which uses the built-in modem (300 baud), and a rather good version of BASIC (no big surprise there).

Kyocera made this computer for three main companies: Tandy, Olivetti (Olivetti M10) and NEC (PC 8201), these computers are the same except the case and some little differences in the programs and a few physical differences.

The operating system uses 3130 bytes of the 8 KB RAM. So the 8 KB models (Catalog # 26-3801) didn’t sell very well. But there was also a 24 kb model (Catalog # 26-3802), and one year later, Tandy replaced the Tandy 100 with the Tandy 102 (which has 24 kb RAM too), and later with the Tandy 200 (1985).

The Tandy 102 is 1/2 inch thinner and one pound weight different. The "Date-Bug" (random changing of the calendar) is also repaired from the Model 100. But many people still prefer the feel of the Model 100 as there are also more 100-only accessories on the used market than compatible accessories...

The CMOS CPU (80c85) allows to use the Tandy 100 for 20 hours with only 4 AA batteries (5 days at 4 hours/day or 20 days at 1 hour/day)!! The model 100/102 is still considered and used as an excellent machine, mainly to type texts when you're on the move (you can transfer them to modern computers) and even to send and receive emails !

Fun fact : its CPU was also used on the Mars Pathfinder probe's Sojourner rover !

 

[timber]

Este Compaq de 1982 também é famoso

Compaq Portable
Introduced: November 1982
Released: March 1983
Price: US$3590 (two floppy system)
How many? 53,000 in 1983, the first year
Weight: 28 pounds.
CPU: Intel 8088, 4.77MHz
RAM: 128K, 640K max
Display: 9" monochrome monitor built-in 80 X 25 text Color graphic card
Storage: Two 320K 5-1/4" disk drives
Ports: 1 parallel (expansion card)
OS: MS-DOS