Description
The Compaq Portable was the first product in the Compaq portable series to be commercially available under the Compaq Computer Corporation brand . It was the first IBM PC compatible portable computer. Compaq derived their company name from the phrase "Compatibility and Quality". Announced in November 1982 and first shipped in January 1983 at a price of US$3,590, this "luggable" suitcase-sized computer was one of the first all-in-one computers; an honor it shares with other products like the Commodore SX-64, the CP/M-based Osborne 1 and Kaypro II, and the MS-DOS-based (but not entirely IBM PC compatible) Dynalogic Hyperion. Its design was influenced by that of the Xerox NoteTaker, a prototype computer developed at Xerox PARC in 1976.
