Hard Reg wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
Out to launch
Feature It is 1984 and Bernard Terry, a civil servant, has devised a ‘portable text processor’ to make his fellow civil servants more productive in the office and out. Electronics giant Thorn EMI has agreed to manufacturer the machine, which will eventually be called the Liberator and become Britain’s first laptop computer. Thorn has taken on the R&D team from the collapsed Dragon Data to design the Liberator. For all the details, check out Part One of the Liberator story.…
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