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An HP-150 with an optional hard disk was called HP Touchscreen MAX. The computer's screen was a 9-inch Sony CRT surrounded by infrared emitters and detectors which detected the position of any non-transparent object that touched the screen.
8-inch floppy disk, inserted in drive, (3½-inch floppy diskette, in front, shown for scale) 3½-inch, high-density floppy diskettes with adhesive labels affixed The first commercial floppy disks, developed in the late 1960s, were 8 inches (203.2 mm) in diameter; [4] [5] they became commercially available in 1971 as a component of IBM products and both drives and disks were then sold ...
In 1985, Compaq introduced the Portable 286, but it was replaced by the more compact Portable II in a redesigned case within a few months. The Portable 286 featured a full-height hard disk, and the options of one half-height floppy drive, two half-height floppy drives, or a half-height floppy drive and a tape backup drive.
Tandy Portable Disk Drive (aka Brother FB-100, knitking FD-19) 3 1 ⁄ 2 inch Single 1 80 2 1,280 200 kB [29] FM Used only in Tandy Portable Disk Drive 2 5 1 ⁄ 4 inch Double 1 35 18 256 157 kB [30] MFM Color Computer HP 9114A 3 1 ⁄ 2 inch Double 2 80 16 256 128-710kB [31] 600 MFM Used with HP 110 and Portable Series 40 & 70 HP 9895A 8 inch ...
The first notebook on the market compatible with the IBM PC was NEC's UltraLite in 1988. [6] [7] Weighing in at 4.4 pounds (2.0 kg), the UltraLite eschewed from conventional floppy and hard disk drives for software and data storage, in favor of proprietary ROM and RAM cards. This approach was technically impressive but led to slow adoption ...
The Compaq Portable 386 is a computer released by Compaq Computer Corporation in 1987. [1] It was equipped with a 20 MHz Intel 80386 CPU, 1 MB RAM, 16 KB ROM, 1.2 MB 5¼-inch floppy, 40 or 100 MB hard disk drive, priced at US$ 7,999 or 9,999 respectively, [1] [2] and a 10" amber gas-plasma display.
On the front of the unit there two dials underneath the PC-speaker to adjust the brightness of the screen and the volume of the PC-speaker. The PC-speaker in the Compaq Portable 486 is unique in that there is a 3.5 mm audio input jack on the side of the unit to allow a third party ISA sound card to pass through its audio output to the PC ...
The Compaq Portable III (Model 2660) is a PC/AT-compatible computer released by Compaq Computer Corporation in 1987. [1] It was advertised as being much smaller and lighter than the previous portable x86-PCs; however it was still quite large by today's standards. [3] Three models were announced at release.