Epson HX-20 Portable Computer
date: label: Date made
content: 1981
name: label: maker
content: Epson
label: maker
content: Seiko Epson Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: The HX-20 was the world's first production laptop computer. Since it was manufactured by Epson, it is not surprising that this machine included a built-in printer, even though that was unusual for a computer of this era, particularly one so small. The machine received much favorable publicity, but did not establish a place for Epson in the global computer market. Over time, Epson concluded that it had little unique ability to bring to this market, and scaled back to producing computers only for specialty markets.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Japan
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Seiko Epson Corporation (thorugh Hideaki Yasukawa)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2001.0003.10
label: catalog number
content: 2001.0003.10
label: accession number
content: 2001.0003
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Portable Computer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 11 1/2 in x 2 in; 21.59 cm x 29.21 cm x 5.08 cm