Portable computer

The term Portable refers to a computer for mobile use with special housing form that has an integrated display. Translated, portable " portable". Later these computers form was partly humorous called luggable, which translates as " schleppbar " means. Especially in the beginning, it was partly in portables at the lighter more portability than to network independence, so some of these devices did not have batteries or batteries. These systems were intended to be used (for example, both in the business presentations as well as or at home) at different locations.

The first portable, Xerox Taker, was developed in 1976 by Xerox PARC. However, he's never gotten over the status of a prototype. The first production-ready Portable was the IBM PC Portable. A more successful and truly IBM PC compatible model was the Compaq Portable. Even Apple, a model of this class has been developed which Macintosh Portable, which but not enough advantages over the non- portable Macintoshes offered to prevail. Toshiba T5200 published in 1989 as a portable computer.

Today Portables are not only in industry and the military still in use, but also in research and in forensic data acquisition. Its strength lies, in contrast to laptops that acquisition cards can be installed or hard disks with several terabytes of storage.