Macintosh PowerBook 100 Unveiled in Las Vegas at the 1991 COMDEX Trade Show

On This Date, October 21, 1991, The Macintosh PowerBook 100 was unveiled at the COMDEX computer expo in Las Vegas, on at an affordable $2300. It was still powered by the fast 16MHz processor, 2-8MB of Memory, 9-inch monochrome backlit LCD display with a resolution of 640×400. The iPad today is thousands of times more powerful than this machine. The PowerBook 100 was manufactured and designed by Sony in collaboration with the Apple Industrial Design Group. It did not have a floppy disk drive but was popular for its compact design and a conveniently placed trackball pointing device (what we call a track-pad in our modern laptops). John Sculley, then CEO of Apple, who was famously brought on board by Apple founder Steve Jobs from Pepsi, personally oversaw the product development of the PowerBook 100.

Editors Note: This was the first laptop that I ever owned.

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