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A Kaypro II displaying the Kaypro Wikipedia page using Lynx over a serial connection A Kaypro II motherboard. The Kaypro II has a 2.5 MHz Zilog Z80 microprocessor; 64 KB of RAM; two single-sided 191 KB 5¼-inch floppy disk drives (named A: and B:); and an 80-column, green monochrome, 9" CRT that was praised for its size and clarity (the Osborne 1 had a 5" display).
Kaypro Computer offered portables that, like the Osborne 1, ran CP/M and included a software bundle, but Kaypro offered larger 9-inch (230 mm) screens. Apple Computer 's offerings had a large software library of their own and with aftermarket cards, could run CP/M as well.
There were a number of games available for the monochrome Kaypro computers. There are currently 10 games on this list. There are currently 10 games on this list. Models II, IV, 4, 10 and 2x
It had features very similar to the Kaypro II. The original sale price was $1,595. [2] The rights for the Zorba were sold by Telcon for $5 million [1] to MODCOMP (Modular Computer Systems, Inc), a company which specialized in mini-computer manufacturing. Modular Micro Group was created specifically to market the Zorba. [2]
Possibly the first commercial IBM-compatible laptop was the 8/16-bit Kaypro 2000, introduced in 1985. With its brushed aluminum clamshell case, it was remarkably similar in design to modern laptops. It featured a 25 line by 80 character LCD, a detachable keyboard, and a pop-up 90 mm (3.5-inch) floppy drive.
The Osborne's popularity was surpassed by the similar Kaypro II; which has a larger, 9 inches (23 cm) CRT that can display 80 characters on 24 lines, and double density floppies that can store twice as much data. Osborne Computer Corporation was unable to effectively respond to Kaypro until after 8-bit, CP/M-based computers were obsolete.
S-BASIC (for Structured Basic) was a "structured" BASIC variant, distributed with Kaypro CP/M systems. [1] [2] It was made by Topaz Programming is distributed by Micro-Ap (San Ramon, California). [3] SBasic was compatible with the syntax of BASIC, a programming language commonly used in the 1970s through the 1980s, as well as Fortran77.
Star Dean-Willcocks were appointed Administrators to the company in June 1995, [4] resulting in the sale of the business assets to Gateway 2000 computer company Gateway. As a result of the sale employees received all entitlements and customers who had pre-paid for computers received a new computer from the new Osborne-Gateway company.