However, these later models were about half as heavy as the NoteTaker, which weighed 22 kg (49 lb). The form factor was later used on the highly successful "luggable" computers, including the Osborne 1 and Compaq Portable. Although it did not enter production, and only around.
#XEROX NOTETAKER PORTABLE#
The NoteTaker fitted into a case similar in form to that of a portable sewing machine the keyboard folded out from the bottom to reveal the monitor and floppy drive. The Xerox NoteTaker is a portable computer developed at Xerox PARC in Palo Alto, California, in 1978. It used a version of the Smalltalk operating system that was originally written for the Xerox Alto computer, which pioneered the graphical user interface. The concept for a consumer laptop came closer in 1979 with the introduction of the GRiD Compass. Although it did not enter production, and only around ten prototypes were built, it strongly influenced the design of the later Osborne 1 and Compaq Portable computers. Developed in 1976, it weighed nearly 50 pounds (34 kg) and featured a monochrome display, 340 kilobytes (KB) disk drive, and a mouse. It was developed at Xerox PARC in Palo Alto, California, in 1976. It had 256 KB of RAM, then a very large amount, and used a 5 MHz Intel 8086 CPU. The Xerox NoteTaker was perhaps the first portable computer. The computer employed what was then highly advanced technology, including a built-in monochrome display monitor, a floppy disk drive and a mouse. Lord Nightmare -Updated Xerox NoteTaker documentation and history section, with cited sources. Xerox NoteTaker drew heavily on Dynabook), graphical user interface, multimedia, as well as the devices we now call laptops, although it’s taken four decades to slim the tech down to the point where usable computers actually weigh below 1 kg.
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Updated comments and history a bit, but needs further improvement. But it largely inspired not only the development of the first desktop personal and portable computers (e.g. While the Dynabook was a concept for a transportable computer that was impossible to implement with available technology, the NoteTaker was intended to show what could be done. Xerox NoteTaker: Added the IO Processor firmware v1.50 as an alt bios after typing it from the assembly source listing on bitsavers. It drew heavily on earlier research by Alan Kay, who had previously developed the Dynabook project.
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The NoteTaker was developed by a team that included Adele Goldberg, Douglas Fairbairn, and Larry Tesler.