It was – in the most literal sense of the term – portable, in that it could be lugged around in a case similar in size to a sewing kit. The concept for a consumer laptop came closer in 1979 with the introduction of the GRiD Compass.
#Xerox notetaker portable#
My most recent project had been the NoteTaker, a portable Smalltalk. by what was probably the first portable computer, the Xerox NoteTaker, again developed at Xerox PARC, in 1976 however, only ten prototypes were built. Developed in 1976, it weighed nearly 50 pounds (34 kg) and featured a monochrome display, 340 kilobytes (KB) disk drive, and a mouse. The NoteTaker also boasted a analogue-to-digital converter with an eight input multiplexer on the input, and a two channel digital-to-analogue converter, interfaces-ethernet, EiA, and IEEE bus interface. summers) at Xerox PARC in the Learning Research Group for the last eight years. One of the first Graphical User Interfaces was employed, the Smalltalk OS which was originally written for the Xerox Alto computer. A comparatively enormous 256 KB of RAM was available on the machine as well as an impressive 5 MHz Intel 8086 CPU. It included a small monochrome display monitor, a floppy disk drive and a mouse. In any case, whoever attempted to build a portable computer in the late 1970s would have produced something a lot like the NoteTaker. The unit’s technology was cutting-edge for its time. Xeroxs NoteTaker Source: The Computing History Museum Through the HCC, Felsenstein and Osborne were well placed to hear about the likes of the NoteTaker. The machine borrowed heavily from Alan Kay’s Dynabook concept which was developed in 1972, but was never commercially developed. What was probably the first portable computer was the Xerox NoteTaker. The team behind the NoteTaker included some of the greatest minds in technology – Adele Goldberg, Douglas Fairbairn, and Larry Tesler. Most notably was Alan Kays Dynabook concept, developed at Xerox PARC in the early 1970s. Still, the design and programming affected the design of the portable computers in the years to follow. The unit did not actually make it to commercial production. Developed by Xerox in 1978, the NoteTaker was arguably the first portable computer.
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