Could this be!? Earlier today I decided to see if I could find an image of my first laptop. It was a gift from my uncle, since he knew how intrigued I was by computers. He hands me an all black Dauphin 386SX Laptop. Nothing fancy about it. The internal 9600bps modem didn’t work, and neither did the battery. It was the size of a 15.4″ laptop, with a 7″ screen. Really quite the animal!
I decided to do a quick Google search for Dauphin laptops. What I came across was strikingly similar to a Q1 with organizer pack. Could this be the very first UMPC, that predates even the OQO 01?
When compared to the Q1 with Organizer Pack:
The specs for the Dauphin are as follows:
- CPU: Cyrix486SLC-25MHz 32bit
- 4MB RAM
- HP Kittyhawk C3014A 40MB HDD
- Pen Windows
- OS: Dos or Win3.1 with Pen extensions
- Input/Output:
Monochrome VGA LCD display; pen input with handwriting recognition; optional separate keyboard - 640×480 grayscale
So is this really the first UMPC? It is amazing how far we have come since the creation of that little device, which was in 1993. That leaves me excited for what the future has, and with the flurry of ultra mobile PC activity lately things are looking pretty good!
