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Compaq Portable 486

Compaq · 1991

The last of the line that made Compaq's name. The original 1983 Portable was the first successful IBM clone and the machine that proved BIOS could be legally reverse-engineered; by 1991 the same lunchbox shape held a 486DX at 33MHz, which is a remarkable amount of computer to carry by a handle. Heavy, superbly engineered, and the end of an idea — laptops had already made the luggable obsolete.

As catalogued

Maker
Compaq
CPU
Intel 80486DX-33
Memory
4MiB, 8MiB, 32MiB
Styles
Portable 486 (mono), Portable 486c (colour), Portable 486/66 (mono), Portable 486/66c (colour)
Regions
US, UK, Europe
Chassis
lunchbox portable, the last of the line
OS
MS-DOS 5

Chips

1
CPU
Intel 80486DX, Intel 80486DX2

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RH-0010Compaq Portable 486/66 Computer · 1992
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