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What was the first computer to be marketed as a "laptop"?
Priced at $4,000, the first ever "laptop" weighed 9 pounds ... portable computers such as the 28 pounder (13 kg) Compaq Portable. Gavilan Computer Corp. declared bankruptcy and closed in 1985.
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Founded by three former Texas Instruments executives, the trio briefly considered opening what type of business before launching Compaq?
It's said that Canion sketched out the first Compaq PC on a placemat at ... which was announced in November 1982 as the Compaq Portable and released in March 1983 for $2,995.
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Lost giants of the PC era: Unsung pioneers of computing
It became renowned for developing the first legally produced IBM PC clone and then the Compaq Portable series of portable computers. However, the key product was the Compaq Deskpro from 1986 ...