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I think your understanding of laptop use in the 1980's is way off base.
by 1987, I was on my 3rd personal laptop (portable computer would be
better, since at least one of those was a "lunchbox" form factor, but
the term "lunchboxes" never took off).
GeekBoy wrote:
> "Barry Watzman" <> wrote in message
> news:46a0ad39$0$30613$...
>> There were laptops with LCD flat panel displays years before 1988. Grid,
>> Data General and Zenith (among others) had early laptops in the early to
>> mid 1980's. There were also some "laptops" (stretching here on the
>> definition of a laptop) in the early 1980's with flat panel monochrome
>> plasma displays (you can tell these by their orange characters). These
>> were made by Compaq, Toshiba and Sharp, among others.
>>
>> Since these were retail consumer products available world-wide, their
>> presence in a 1988 video would not be at all out of the question.
>
> I saw the crappy video. The LCD screen is in color, though I think it is the
> old CGA type.
>
> But this begs the question; What would they be doing with a laptop wayyyyy
> back then?
> The amount of people using them was quite small.
> In addition their usage for personal use was still a bit limited.
>
> Most usages back them mostly seemed to be with government with with
> terminals merely accessing a mainframe, or PCs which was mostly back then
> used for word processing or spread sheets.
>
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