CPU
Intel 8088
Compaq Portable
Compaq · 1983
The machine that created the clone industry. Compaq reverse-engineered IBM's BIOS cleanly, put the result in a sewing-machine-sized case with a handle, and sold $111 million of them in the first year — the fastest start in American business history at the time. Everything that followed in the PC market follows from this. Heavy, superbly made, and historically about as important as a PC gets.
As catalogued
- Maker
- Compaq
- CPU
- Intel 8088-4.77
- Memory
- 128K, 256K, 640K
- Styles
- one drive, two drives
- Regions
- US, UK, Europe
- Chassis
- sewing-machine luggable with a 9-inch amber CRT
- OS
- Compaq MS-DOS 1.13
Chips
FPU
Intel 8087
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