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Compaq LTE

Compaq · 1989

The machine that made "notebook" a category: Compaq put a full PC with a hard disc into something the size of a hardback in 1989, and the industry followed within a year. Small, well made and genuinely portable in a way nothing before it was. An important laptop and an uncommon one.

As catalogued

Maker
Compaq
CPU
Intel 80C86-9.54
Memory
640K, 2MiB
Styles
LTE, LTE/286
Regions
US, UK, Europe
Chassis
notebook, the first of the size that stayed
OS
MS-DOS 4.01

Chips

1
CPU
Intel 80C86, Intel 80C286

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