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Re:Whatever happened to the laptop computer? (1985) by jhbadger on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @04:40PM (#10897754)
There were lots of "average" people with computers in 1985 -- largely to play games with, That was the time of "home computers" like the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and Apple ][.

What people didn't have was laptops.

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Re:Whatever happened to the laptop computer? (1985) by pjmlp on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @05:17PM (#10898045)
Sure we had them.

Carrying them to someone's place and spend the afternoon playing / coding. :)

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