Guardian's first laptop: teaching resource of the month from the
GNM Archive, October 2012  Each month we provide resource
material from the GNM Archive that can be used in the classroom.
This month we are looking at the Tandy portable computer and
talking to Guardian journalist Maev Kennedy about how it
radically changed the reporting process Education Centre - Tandy
Tandy TRS-80 Model 100 portable computer from the GNM Archive
Photograph: Robin Christian for the Guardian  A hundred years
after GT Robinson tried to send his Papillon de Metz
(September's resource) getting a story to your editor still
posed some problems.  The GNM Archive has in its collections a
Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 used by Guardian reporters
from 1983 onwards. It was not the first laptop in use, this was
arguably the Osborne 1 although this was the size and weight of
a heavily packed suitcase, whereas the Tandy was considerably
lighter and could fit in a satchel size bag.  Prior to the
introduction of the Tandy computer, copyta