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The future trends in personal computers from the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show, January 1981:
“Toshiba introduced what could be the most significant product of the year for the personal-computing market:a pocket-size flat-screen television set. While no specific mention mention was made of its possible use with a personal computer, it takes only a moment’s thought to see the potential of this engineering marvel. […] The Toshiba television has a 4.1 by 3.1 cm (13/4 by 1 1/5 inch) LCD screen.“
“Sony has introduced a new electronic “typewriter” that fits in a briefcase and lets you enter, store and edit up to 200 pages of text, using a built-in microcassette recorder. Text is displayed on a one-line liquid-crystal display. Combine such a device with a flat-screen multiline video display and you have a very attractive concept, indeed.
Another
Sony breakthrough is a new miniature floppy-disk system. Each disk
measures 8.9 cm (3 ½ inches) in diameter and holds over 800,000
bytes!“
(Byte Magazine, April 1981, p.6, complete issue on archive.org. Middle illustration, Sony typecorder, computerhistory.org)
