{"id":3389,"date":"2016-01-17T07:23:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T15:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=3389"},"modified":"2016-01-16T08:33:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T16:33:30","slug":"the-nyt-reviews-the-laptop-market-in-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/17\/the-nyt-reviews-the-laptop-market-in-1985\/","title":{"rendered":"The NYT reviews the laptop market&#8230; in 1985"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These \u201cgas-plasma displays\u201d sound kinda rad!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;But the real future of the laptop computer will remain in the specialized niche markets. Because no matter how inexpensive the machines become, and no matter how sophisticated their software, I still can&#8217;t imagine the average user taking one along when going fishing&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1985\/12\/08\/business\/the-executive-computer.html\">Good stuff<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Macintosh_Portable\">first portable Mac<\/a> (all 16lbs. &#038; $7,500 of it) was still four years in the future. Some 17 years after that, the iPhone arrived. Pretty sure people take them fishing. [Via Ross Hobbie]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These \u201cgas-plasma displays\u201d sound kinda rad! &#8220;But the real future of the laptop computer will remain in the specialized niche markets. Because no matter how inexpensive the machines become, and no matter how sophisticated their software, I still can&#8217;t imagine the average user taking one along when going fishing&#8230; Good stuff. The first portable Mac [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3389"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3405,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389\/revisions\/3405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}