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2. Compaq Portable - Wikipedia

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   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.

3. Compaq - Wikipedia

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   The Compaq Portable was the first in the range of the Compaq Portable series. Compaq was able to market a legal IBM clone because IBM mostly used "off the shelf" parts for their PC. Furthermore, Microsoft had kept the right to license MS-DOS, the most popular and de facto standard operating system [25] for the IBM PC, to other computer ...

4. Compaq Portable series - Wikipedia

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   The Compaq logo as used on the first Compaq portables. Compaq's first computers' form factors were portable, also called "luggables", and then "lunchbox computers", and together constituted the Compaq Portable series. These computers measured approximately 16 inches (410 mm) deep, 8 inches (200 mm) tall, and approximately 20 inches (510 mm) wide.

5. Hyperion (computer) - Wikipedia

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   The Hyperion is an early portable computer that vied with the Compaq Portable to be the first portable IBM PC compatible.It was marketed by Infotech Cie of Ottawa, a subsidiary of Bytec Management Corp., who acquired the designer and manufacturer Dynalogic Corporation, in January 1983.

6. Compaq Portable 386 - Wikipedia

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   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 .

7. IBM PC–compatible - Wikipedia

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   The Compaq was the first sewing machine-sized portable computer that was essentially 100% PC-compatible. The court decision in Apple v. Franklin , was that BIOS code was protected by copyright law, but it could reverse-engineer the IBM BIOS and then write its own BIOS using clean room design .