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Evertop is a handsome portable computer with an e-ink display and a built-in solar panel. By implementing the modest specifications of a mid-80s IBM PC on a low-power microcontroller, it can run ...
"Portable" is a relative term, of course. In the earlier 80s, a mobile computer like the Osborne-1 looked like an oversized suitcase that weighed over 20 pounds and had its own fold-out keyboard ...
While 3D printing wasn’t widespread in the 80s, we can assume any of the plastic ... [Hoekstra]’s Mega Omega MSX2 Portable Computer makes for a very impressive reimagining of the MSX platform ...
When thinking of home computers and their portable kin it’s easy to assume ... including the 25 x 80 character LCD screen and the built-in microcassette storage. Although never released in ...
Apple is exploring the possibility of integrating a fully functioning Mac within a keyboard, reminiscent of home computers of the 80s, such as ... Although portable computing devices, such as ...
Jim Harris and Bill Murto had a concept for building a better mousetrap that involved a portable “suitcase computer” capable of running the same software and peripherals as a Big Blue PC.
In a year poised for portable tunes, the compact disc became ... here are a few other blasts from the past.From Rotary to Radical: The ‘80s wave of wild and wacky phone ownershipDo you remember ...