Citations:laptop

English citations of laptop

Earliest Usenet uses via Google Groups:

• lap-top: net.micro - 6 Jul 1983 by dan%sri-tsc

  Here is a termcap entry for the new lap-top TRS80 Model 100 Portable Computer, in terminal emulation mode.

• laptop: fa.info-mac - 7 Jul 1984 by info-mac

  My affection for the TRS-80 Model 100 laptop that I sold to buy the Mac grew with increasing use; my affection for the Mac is shrinking.

• lap top: net.micro.cpm - 18 Sep 1984 by Mike Rubenstein

  It is arguable that those not included aren't appropriate on a lap top, but I feel that if they are advertising CP/M they should give it to you.

• laptops: net.micro - 25 Oct 1984 by Joel Thorson

  It blows all previous laptops (<$1K class) completely out of the water.

• lap-tops: net.micro - 29 Jul 1985 by rosen

  This would probably be ideal if it had a floppy disk drive and a readable display (I've heard bad things about the displays on some lap-tops) and a reasonable amount of memory.

• laptop's: comp.sys.ibm.pc - 13 Mar 1987 by zhahai

  If you do want this solution (treating the laptop's microfloppy drives as external floppies to a desktop), there are programs which will allow you to do this though the serial port, which is more universal than external floppy connectors.

• Lap Tops: comp.protocols.kermit - 25 May 1987 by Roger Fajman

  (subject line) Sending BREAK from Toshiba Lap Tops

• lap tops: comp.sys.ibm.pc.digest - 18 Jun 1987 by STJOHNS

  Many lap tops don't use the same serial port chip as in the PC.

• lap-top's: comp.sys.novell - 16 Aug 1993 by Dave Horsfall

  The symptom is that when the PPP connection is established, the Sun end reverts to an address of all zero's ("default") from what should be the lap-top's address; this has been demonstrated on a number of configurations.

• lap top's: alt.tv.x-files.creative - 7 Jan 1996 by Paula Graves

  She filed the report on her lap top's hard drive and made a back-up copy on floppy by force of habit.

— Hippietrail 15:28, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)