they contributed nothing to laptop technology. In fact, the design for the first tablet PC was set out in 1968, long before most of the technologies necessary to build it were even invented.

Conceived and created by Manuel Fernandez, founder of Gavilan Computer Corp., the Gavilan SC was an early laptop computer and was the first to actually be called such when marketed to consumers in ...

a type of mechanical analog computer), invented in 1848 and patented on 3 March. In the early 1850s a certain Ernest-Narcisse ...

Compared to today's computers it is slow and heavy with little battery life and a poor screen, but it transformed my life because it was the first laptop I owned that could do everything I needed ...