An illustrated guide to how Alan Kay invented the portable computer

by Julian Prokaza
on Thu 20 Nov 2008 Comment

Alan Kay strip (c) BusinessWeek

BusinessWeek has posted a nice slideshow that highlights Alan Kay’s influence on the world of mobile computing – he’s the guy that practically invented the netbook some 40 years ago, as you may remember...

The slides are illustrations based on a book by BusinessWeek writer Steve Hamm, called The Race for Perfect: Inside the Quest to Design the Ultimate Portable Computer. This traces the 40-year history of mobile computing (and also tracks the entire development cycle of the Lenovo X300), which pretty much began with Kay’s DynaBook concept in 1968.

You can see the full slideshow over at BusinessWeek – it’s well worth a look.

[ The Long Road To The Laptop via BoingBoing]

Originally published on www.mobilecomputermag.co.uk, now incorporated into Broadband Genie
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