Dynabook: the concept ancestor of the notebook turns 40 years

It past about 40 years since the first concept notebook. A frightening developments (like the rest of the technology) that in recent years seen its characteristics changes day by day.

It's interesting to see that the notebook we know today all descended from a single concept never made it Dynabook was never realized, yet is the model that provided the foundations for the creation of notebooks that we know today. And it is this concept that three days ago has celebrated 40 years at the Mountain View Computer History Museum.

Dynabook was designed by a programmer of Xerox, Alan Kay, who wanted to create a laptop designed (at least initially) children. Just when computers weighed 50 kilos, he designed a concept for a 1 kilo that was decisive for the creation of notebooks, in fact in 1968 for the development of the Dynabook, other developers joined the project managed to work actively to the creation of the first notebooks to be sold on a large scale: Osborne 1, a PC portable (weighing about 10 kilos) released in 1981 boasted of having the beauty of 65 kilobytes of memory for an attractive price of 1800 dollars.