Toshiba's first laptop, the T1100, launched in 1985. It weighed 4kg (8.8 pounds) and worked with 3.5 inch (8.8cm) floppy disks. It was launched at first only in Europe with an annual sales target ...

Armed with that emperor-has-no-clothes worldview, the young Toshiba executive embarked on a mission that in 1985 yielded the T1100, the first commercially viable laptop. When introduced in Europe ...