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On this day 40 years ago, the IBM Portable Computer was introduced
a computer which had been introduced a year earlier, in 1983. The Compaq Portable was one of the first fully IBM PC-compatible portable computer, a strategic move that had allowed Compaq to carve ...
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The Origin of PCs
In January 1973, IBM engineer Paul Friedl, PhD (CIT '55; GRS '57, '60, chemical engineering), brought his managers a bold idea: create a portable computer for ... and inventor of the world's first ...