Current day personal computers (or 'PCs') are vastly different to the early computers described here. The modern PC was made possible by the development of the microprocessor in the early 1970s.

To a large extent, they have succeeded. One notable portable computer from the early '80s weighed 28 pounds and cost $3,600. Today's mobile computers, in contrast, are far lighter, much slimmer ...

Back in the early 1980s, hotshot business types on the go would have used what were referred to at the time as portable computers from companies like Osborne or Kaypro. Due to the technical ...

The PC turbo button and LED clock speed display were common features on early personal computers. Wanting to add a little retro chic to his modern battle-station, [Matthew Frost] assembled a ...

released the first commercially available portable computer ... form factor in its design. In the early 80s, William Shatner became a pitchman for Commodore Computers. And in 1982, the same ...

Nowhere is this truer than with laptops and tablet PCs. The supposedly portable computers of the early 1980s, such as Osborne 1 and Compaq, were conventional desktop computers with a small monitor ...