Technologizer

The Laptop, Circa 1968

In 2009, portability is the default state of affairs with computers, since laptops outsell desktop PCs. But in the 1960s, the typical computer was a room-filling mainframe; minicomputers, which were merely the size of a refrigerator, were the small computers of the day. Which didn’t mean that folks weren’t craving the concept of mobile computing even [...]

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