I'll bet not a lot of you remember these:
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Didn't the Kaypro run CPM?
I had one of these early Compaq bad boys.
x2I had one of these early Compaq bad boys.
mine had dual 5.25s with a Bitmap modem and a hardcard hard drive in it. That thing was top o the line
Used one for a few years. The first laptop if you had a$$ big lap.I had one of these early Compaq bad boys.
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My brother found one in a steel building he was demo'ing a few years back.
It met it's end in a hail of 7.62mm fire..
It met it's end in a hail of 7.62mm fire..
I got to play around with all the old/original "portable" compaq's in the late 80's. Worked for my friend's parents, who owned a PI company and did a lot of work for Compaq in Houston.I had one of these early Compaq bad boys.
I was doin it big playah:
Yep, CPM
It had a 2.5 MHz Zilog Z80 microprocessor, 64 KB of RAM, dual, single-sided, 191 kB 5¼ inch floppy disk drives, and an 80 column green monochrome 9" CRT. WOO HOO !
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I love how you talk about an old skool 'puter while using a smart phone to do it.
Amazing how far things have come in a relatively short amount of time.
had one too...thing was damn heavy for a scrawny kid like me...called it the sewing machineI had one of these early Compaq bad boys.
Kaypro was built in San Diego (Solana Beach), Andy Kay made a lot of us some $$ back then, we supplied a variety of electronic components to them.
I had both the Kaypro 1 and the Kaypro 2.
The first luggable computer. I wish I had kept them.
