Historic Photographs - Brutalism in an early laptop, Compaq LTE 386 (1990). The product was among the first computers to be close to the size of a paper notebook, spurring the use
Were computer laptops useful and functional prior to the late-1990's or were they more of a novelty and status symbol? - Quora
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