[SIGCIS-Members] TechRepublic: The evolution of the laptop computer

[Evan Koblentz]

Their use of "first" this or that, on almost every slide, and the fact 
that most of the things they called "first" aren't by a long shot.



On 05/10/2017 10:33 PM, Joly MacFie wrote:
> Oh? I only looked at the pretty pix :)
>
> What particularly got your goat?
>
> I was disappointed not to see the portable Commodore 64 in there.
> ​j​
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>
> On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 9:56 PM, Evan Koblentz <evan at vcfed.org
> <mailto:evan at vcfed.org>> wrote:
>
>     I'm a TechRepublic contributor. Emailed my editor there today and
>     told her this made me CRINGE for being so error-ridden. I reminded
>     her that I (literally) wrote the book on the evolution of mobile
>     computing. No response yet...
>
>
>
>     On 05/10/2017 09:27 PM, Joly MacFie wrote:
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>
>         ​Clickbait, but pretty.
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>         ​
>         http://www.techrepublic.com/pictures/the-evolution-of-the-laptop-computer/
>         <http://www.techrepublic.com/pictures/the-evolution-of-the-laptop-computer/>
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