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, ...

Think Kaypro, Osborne, or the Compaq Portable. First things first — this lovely 1990-era industrial luggable has not been gutted according to [D1g1t4l_G33k].

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 ...

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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 ...