[dboreham]

Laptops that look like today's laptops were well established by 1995. I still have a Compaq I got in 96 that still runs Windows 2000. I bought my first laptop in Akihabra in 1989, before they were widely available outside Japan. It also looked like today's laptops (was roughly the size of a notebook, uniform thickness, much thicker than its width/height), which was I recall a new thing that year. But long before that there was a gradual progression towards that "genesis-laptop" stage. There were "luggable" PCs that used display technology that wasn't LCD (gas discharge?). I remember those used by field personnel back to around 1986.

[Dracophoenix]

Was it a Toshiba? What were the specs?

[dboreham]

Yes, Toshiba. It was marketed in Japan as the "Dynabook". I haven't been able to find the actual model number from archive information yet. Possibly a Japan-only model. It had a floppy drive and an 8088, monochrome LCD screen. I remember it could run Turbo Pascal.