Compaq Portable

The Compaq Portable is an early portable computer which was one of the first IBM PC compatible systems. It was Compaq Computer Corporation's first product, to be followed by others in the Compaq Portable series and later Compaq Deskpro series. It was not simply an 8088-CPU computer that ran a Microsoft DOS as a PC "work-alike", but contained a reverse-engineered BIOS, and a version of MS-DOS that was so similar to IBM's PC DOS that it ran nearly all its application software. The computer was also an early variation on the idea of an "all-in-one".

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Category: PC
Make: Compaq
Year: 1983
OS: MS-DOS
Status:
Hardware: Luggable
Battery: Not Inspected
Barcode: 32775905805023
Date Tested:
Inventory #: X0049
Donor: Jacob Lower
Notes: External control data hard drive

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