Kaypro

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(thing) by Wintersweet (1.3 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Sun Feb 06 2000 at 17:31:49
A nifty little personal computer, now obsolete. Our Kaypro II had a keyboard that snapped onto the all-in-one motherboard/monochrome monitor and had a handle on top. This guy I know lugged his all over the Australian Outback. They were quite rugged. It took a 5 1/4 floppy and had no hard drive. It ran CP/M and Basic, and you could play Adventure/Colossal Cave, Hunt the Wumpus, and so on, in lovely green ASCII graphics. It also ran WordStar, a kick-ass word processor for its time, which, by the way, was 1982.
(thing) by mrichich (2.5 mon) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Sun Oct 29 2000 at 18:17:19
Kaypro product line, circa 1984: Later Kaypro came out with the Kaypro 16 which was IBM compatible and a few other desktops. They probably stopped in the early '90s, but have recently reformed selling run-of-the-mill PC compatibles.

My Kaypro II that I wrote all of my high school term papers on still is in my basement. Should fire it up someday.

(thing) by etoile (1 mon) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Sun Nov 11 2001 at 22:42:15
First seen at the Las Vegas Comdex in 1984, the Kaypro Robie was supposed to be a desktop computer - the only non-portable machine by Kaypro. Like other machines from that manufacturer, it ran CP/M on a Z80 processor. It had a monochrome screen, and ran at 4.77 MHz. The jet black Robie came with a five-megabyte hard disk, two 5.x5" disk drives, and a 300bps modem.

Sources
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=278
http://www.yoy.org/kaypro/html/kayprohist.html

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