Special:Badtitle/NS90:Milestones-Nomination talk:Toshiba T1100, a pioneering contribution to the development of laptop PC, 1985/Toshiba laptop/reply

Dear Mischaschwartz-san:

Thank you for your comment. We are sorry for our very late relay.

As you pointed out that our original proposal was "the first lap top PC", but we have change it and the current proposal is not include "the first".

The latest proposal is as follows.

• The 1980s was beginning of lap top PCs.

• Those days, PC companies had competed with technical advantages, like CPU speed, size, peripherals, and etc.

• Toshiba‘s concept were;

@ not original architecture but standard
@ not desktop but lap top
@ no need to write software by themselves but can buy it

• Toshiba appealed this point not only to PC experts but also to business users.

@ Users can use T1100 on their desk connecting a external display, same with desktop PC.
@ Disconnecting the external display, users can continue to use PC under same environment when they go out their office with laptop PC and software

This usage is natural for the current users but was brand new for users in 1980s, especially for non PC experts.

• Toshiba developed power control software to support portability. (e.g. resume function in 1989) Based on this technology Toshiba defined a standard, ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) with Microsoft and Intel which is supported all of the current PCs.

• As the result of this promotion, Toshiba won 40% portable PC market share in Europe in 1987. In 2010, the total amount of Toshiba portable PC's shipping had exceeded 100 million. Also T1100 was the start of expanding market for small LCD display and for lithium-ion batteries for mobile equipment.