Citations:laptop

Earliest Usenet uses via Google Groups: &mdash; Hippietrail 15:28, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * lap-top: net.micro - 6 Jul 1983 by dan%sri-tsc
 * Here is a termcap entry for the new lap-top TRS80 Model 100 Portable Computer, in terminal emulation mode.
 * laptop: fa.info-mac - 7 Jul 1984 by info-mac
 * My affection for the TRS-80 Model 100 laptop that I sold to buy the Mac grew with increasing use; my affection for the Mac is shrinking.
 * lap top: net.micro.cpm - 18 Sep 1984 by Mike Rubenstein
 * It is arguable that those not included aren't appropriate on a lap top, but I feel that if they are advertising CP/M they should give it to you.
 * laptops: net.micro - 25 Oct 1984 by Joel Thorson
 * It blows all previous laptops (<$1K class) completely out of the water.
 * lap-tops: net.micro - 29 Jul 1985 by rosen
 * This would probably be ideal if it had a floppy disk drive and a readable display (I've heard bad things about the displays on some lap-tops) and a reasonable amount of memory.
 * laptop's: comp.sys.ibm.pc - 13 Mar 1987 by zhahai
 * If you do want this solution (treating the laptop's microfloppy drives as external floppies to a desktop), there are programs which will allow you to do this though the serial port, which is more universal than external floppy connectors.
 * Lap Tops: comp.protocols.kermit - 25 May 1987 by Roger Fajman
 * (subject line) Sending BREAK from Toshiba Lap Tops
 * lap tops: comp.sys.ibm.pc.digest - 18 Jun 1987 by STJOHNS
 * Many lap tops don't use the same serial port chip as in the PC.
 * lap-top's: comp.sys.novell - 16 Aug 1993 by Dave Horsfall
 * The symptom is that when the PPP connection is established, the Sun end reverts to an address of all zero's ("default") from what should be the lap-top's address; this has been demonstrated on a number of configurations.
 * lap top's: alt.tv.x-files.creative - 7 Jan 1996 by Paula Graves
 * She filed the report on her lap top's hard drive and made a back-up copy on floppy by force of habit.