{"id":20,"date":"2005-11-11T13:25:48","date_gmt":"2005-11-11T18:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=20"},"modified":"2006-04-08T21:55:29","modified_gmt":"2006-04-09T02:55:29","slug":"the-worlds-first-flying-laptop-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/20\/the-worlds-first-flying-laptop-computer","title":{"rendered":"The World&#8217;s First (Flying) Laptop Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/epsonhx20.gif\" target=\"new\"><img src='\/wp-content\/epsonhx20_small.jpg' alt='Epson HX-20'  class=\"alignright\"\/><\/a>I was just looking through my collection of old computer images today when I noticed this one.  Someone is apparently tossing an $800 Epson HX-20 computer (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digibarn.com\/collections\/systems\/epson-hx20\/\" target=\"new\">incidentally the world&#8217;s first &#8220;laptop&#8221;<\/a>) toward this creepy disembodied hand.  Or perhaps the HX-20 had flying capabilities that I wasn&#8217;t aware of.  Either way, it&#8217;s pretty weird.  What will people in 1981 think of next?<\/p>\n<p>For more info on the Epson HX-20, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/oldcomputers.net\/hx-20.html\" target=\"new\">this cool page<\/a>.  And if you want some original documentation on this early portable, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epson.com\/cgi-bin\/Store\/support\/supDetail.jsp?cookies=no&#038;infoType=Doc&#038;oid=14492\" target=\"new\">Epson&#8217;s own product support site for the HX-20<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just looking through my collection of old computer images today when I noticed this one. Someone is apparently tossing an $800 Epson HX-20 computer (incidentally the world&#8217;s first &#8220;laptop&#8221;) toward this creepy disembodied hand. Or perhaps the HX-20 had flying capabilities that I wasn&#8217;t aware of. Either way, it&#8217;s pretty weird. What will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}