The latest of these cyberdecks, a dual screen “luggable” reminiscent of classic computers like the Compaq Portable or Kaypro, comes our way from [dapperrogue].

He rescued the original 28 pound Compaq luggable and turned it into a work of art. He also managed to get it up on the Internet and pointed it at the Hackaday retro edition, ...

The all-in-one design of the Compaq Portable contained an entire PC in a luggable case. The 28 pound Portable was not very mobile but with the big keyboard latched to cover the 9-inch green screen ...

The device came to be known as the "luggable", and it took off with the public. Compaq sold about 53,000 luggables in its first year. The company joined the desktop PC fray in 1984 and three years ...

Ragnar84’s i3-based luggable PC. ... That’s an absolute bargain compared to the $10,000-plus Compaq wanted for the Portable 486 I thought was so amazing back in the early 90s.

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The main narrative in "Silicon Cowboys" is about Compaq's challenge to established computing behemoth IBM, nicknamed Big Blue. Personal computers were a new market in the 1980s, full of upstarts ...

A slick and streamlined documentary about the ambitious Houston mavericks who challenged the supremacy of then-dominant IBM in the 1980s with their revolutionary concept for a portable computer.

Technically speaking, the Compaq Portable, with a weight of 27 pounds, was considered less a portable than a “luggable,” but it nevertheless possessed a certain coolness factor that caught ...

Jeff Alexander loves to tinker. The 35-year Microsoft Australia veteran says he used to be called the ‘gadget guy’ and remembers pulling apart Compaq luggable computers to understand how they worked – ...

My first computer was an Osborne 1, and it’s still one of my favorites, though it’s no longer made. My old (three years is “old” in the computer industry) Ozzie still serves… ...