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submitted 1 year ago by Crul@lemm.ee to c/cassettefuturism@lemm.ee

Source: Photo by Sandstein - File:Epson HX-20 in case - MfK Bern.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

Wikipedia: Epson HX-20

The Epson HX-20 (also known as the HC-20) was the first "true" laptop computer. It was invented in July 1980 by Yukio Yokozawa, who worked for Suwa Seikosha, a branch of Japanese company Seiko (now Seiko Epson), receiving a patent for the invention.

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[-] nottheengineer@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

The keyboard does look very nice, good luck with that!

[-] clutchmattic@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago
[-] nottheengineer@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

This is a german one, it even has the same wrong symbols on the number row as modern german keyboards.

[-] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Finns use QWERTY. QWERTZ is historically used in Central Europe and the Balkans though nowadays it’s mostly used in German speaking nations.

The ö, ü and ä keys indicate that this a German QWERTZ layout.

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