Memory lane: Remembering the Compaq Portable
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In 1983 three former Texas Instruments executives launched the first IBM PC compatible computer that was the beginning of the mobile PC industry. The Compaq Portable demonstrated that mobile computers were the wave of the future.
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Memory lane: Remembering the Compaq Portable
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