But can you really look at the clunky Compaq LTE 286 laptop that [Dmitry Brant] hacked a Raspberry Pi into and honestly say it’s a machine worthy of historical preservation? The 30+ year old ...

Nowhere is this truer than with laptops and tablet PCs. The supposedly portable computers of the early 1980s, such as Osborne 1 and Compaq, were conventional desktop computers with a small monitor ...

[Autuin] found a Compaq Portable III destined for the scrap ... Unfortunately, being a 286, the computer couldn’t do much. He could take the usual route; which is to remove all the internals ...

the Gavilan SC was more compact than rival IBM PC-compatible portable computers such as the 28 pounder (13 kg) Compaq Portable. Gavilan Computer Corp. declared bankruptcy and closed in 1985.

Alex Gruzen, Compaq's vice president and general manager of mobile computing, will head the new HP's notebook business. Mike Larson, senior vice president and general manager for Compaq's ...