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Compaq Contura

Compaq · 1992

A budget 486 notebook from 1992, sold in volume when the laptop stopped being exotic. Unremarkable by design, which is its interest: it marks the point at which portable computing became an ordinary purchase rather than a statement. Plentiful and cheap.

As catalogued

Maker
Compaq
CPU
Intel 80486SL-25
Memory
4MiB, 8MiB
Styles
Contura 3/25, Contura 4/25, Contura Aero
Regions
US, UK, Europe
Chassis
notebook
OS
MS-DOS 5 / Windows 3.1

Chips

1
CPU
Intel 80386SL, Intel 80486SL, Intel 80486DX2

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