[Autuin] found a Compaq Portable III destined for the scrap bin ... Unfortunately, being a 286, the computer couldn’t do much. He could take the usual route; which is to remove all the internals ...

The modern laptop has its origins in the mid to late ... defining characteristic of portables such as the Osborne 1 and Compaq Portable, and it’s great to see it included here.

the Gavilan SC was more compact than rival IBM PC-compatible portable computers such as the 28 pounder (13 kg) Compaq Portable. Gavilan Computer Corp. declared bankruptcy and closed in 1985.

In November 1982, Rod Canion unveiled the result. Bill Murto What IÍve brought today is a Compaq portable computer. When Bill Murto, another Compaq founder got a plug on a cable TV show their ...

Nowhere is this truer than with laptops and tablet PCs. The supposedly portable computers of the early 1980s, such as Osborne 1 and Compaq, were conventional desktop computers with a small monitor ...

It's said that Canion sketched out the first Compaq PC on a placemat at the pie shop ... which was announced in November 1982 as the Compaq Portable and released in March 1983 for $2,995.

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A lightweight computer that can be easily transported. Portable computing started in 1981, when Adam Osborne introduced his CP/M-based business computer called the Osborne 1. It came bundled with ...

but you’ll want to back anything important up in the cloud or on a portable SSD. The webcam, microphone, and speakers are all great. HP has upgraded the webcam on nearly all of its computers to ...

The IBM PC was successfully cloned by Compaq and unsuccessfully by others. However, by the time IBM announced the PC AT model in 1984, other vendors had succeeded at cloning, and the PC market ...

At the time, The Register said: "BeOS is a very portable OS ... the complete version of the 80286. In 1986, Compaq launched ...

Simply a brilliant laptop, and one we were loathed to give back. Well, look what we have here. Not only does this 14-inch super portable laptop have an RTX 4070, but an eight core 16 thread AMD ...