[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 ...

After winning an online auction for an 1980s vintage Compaq Portable PC, [leadacid44] discovered why it only cost him $5USD – the keyboard was shot. Not willing to accept having forked out $ ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The backpack is pricey but still cheaper than the beefier Starlink traveling case SpaceX sold for an earlier satellite dish.

The Lenovo Legion Go has a huge 8.8-inch display, runs Windows, and includes detachable controllers like the Nintendo Switch.

The first DOS-based, battery-backed laptop with a thin LCD screen ... was considerably easier to carry than a 30-pound Compaq, which was a very popular portable of the day. THIS DEFINITION ...