Dauphin DTR-1: The 486 Touchscreen PC from 1992! (Patreon)

Dauphin DTR-1: The 486 Touchscreen PC from 1992!

The 1990s saw portable computing take off in a big way, but manufacturers were still trying to figure out what form factor worked best. While most went with the notebook design we're most familiar with today, a small company from Chicago had another idea. Sources: IBM 5155 luggable PC photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IBM_5155_(1).jpg "HP floors industry with 20MB, 1.3-inch drive," InfoWorld, June 15, 1992. "Smooth as Glass," PC Magazine, May 25, 1993. "HP drops disk drives," Computerworld, July 15, 1996. "Lappro-286 Introduced By Dauphin," InfoWorld, October 24, 1988. "286-Based Portables," PC Magazine, March 13, 1990. "Dauphin 1000-FX Is One of First 486SX Laptops," InfoWorld, June 10, 1991. "Dauphin touts hand-held pen tablet as desktop substitute," InfoWorld, January 25, 1993. "State of the Slate: Pen-based Computers," PC Magazine, March 30, 1993. "Area computer firm wins defense contract," Chicago Tribune, February 8, 1992. "Dauphin's Modular DTR-1: Portable, But No Desktop PC," PC Magazine, September 28, 1993. "Portable Pleasures," Computerworld, October 25, 1993. "PDA market stays shaky but active," Computerworld, August 22, 1994. DTR-2 photos: http://www.spic.net/mirrors/dauphin-dtr-1/www.eskimo.com/%257Etoby/dtr1/pics/index.html "For Pen PC Mogul, a Sword Would Have Been Mightier," PC Magazine, June 27, 1995. "Dauphin Technologies files for bankruptcy; IBM the main debtor," Chicago Tribune, January 4, 1995. "Palmtop sales slow, forcing firm's hand in Chapter 11 filing," Chicago Tribune, January 5, 1995. "Dauphin out of Chapter 11," Chicago Tribune, July 30, 1996. "Dauphin Technology acquires R.M. Schultz," Daily Herald, February 12, 1997. "Marketing Orasis," Chicago Tribune, June 7, 1999. "Hefty handhelds on tap at Comdex," InfoWorld, November 17, 1997. Dauphin Orasis photo: https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/g9462s/behold_my_very_rare_dauphin_orasis_tablet/ GeoVax merges with Dauphin in 2006: https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2006/01/23/daily26.html?page=all ----------------------------------------­------------------------------------- Please consider supporting my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisdoesnotcompute Follow me on Twitter and Instagram! @thisdoesnotcomp ----------------------------------------­------------------------------------- Music by Epidemic Sound (https://www.epidemicsound.com). Intro music by BoxCat Games (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/BoxCat_Games).