Year: 1983 Initial Price: US $2,995 (equivalent to $7,400 in 2017) The Compaq Portable is an early portable computer which was one of the first 100% IBM PC compatible systems. It was Compaq Computer Corporation’s first product, to be followed by others in the Compaq portable series and later Compaq Deskpro series. The Compaq Portable was announced in November 1982 and first shipped in March 1983, priced at US $2,995…
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Compaq Portable III Model 2660
Year: 1988 Initial Price: $4999 ($11,091.00 in 2018) The Compaq Portable III is a PC/AT-compatible computer released by Compaq Computer Corporation in 1987. It was advertised as being much smaller and lighter than the previous portable x86-PCs, however it was still quite large by today’s standards. Three models were announced at release. The Model 1 had a list price of 3999 USD and was…
Toshiba T1000LE
YEAR: 1990 INITIAL PRICE: $1799 SN: 10016686 The Toshiba T1000LE was one of the first laptops to include both a hard drive and a Ni-CD battery. Previous laptops did not have enough power to run a hard drive from battery power (exceptions include the Toshiba T1200, which had a proprietary 26-pin JVC hard drive, and the Macintosh Portable, which…
NEC Starlet PC8401-A-LS
Year: 1985 Initial Price: about $1000 $2,392.79 in September 2018 “The NEC 8401 A is the second generation NEC notebook portable computer. It is significantly different from the 8201, and we expect it will appeal to a different type of customer. Briefly, the 8401 has a 16-line by 80-column fold-up LCD screen, 64K of…
Apple //e
Year: January 1983 Initial Price: $1298(4 kB RAM) and $2638 (48 kB RAM) The Apple IIe (styled as Apple //e) is the third model in the Apple II series of personal computers produced by Apple Computer. The e in the name stands for enhanced, referring to the fact that several popular features were now built-in that were available only as upgrades or add-ons in earlier models. It…
Fujitsu Lifebook B142
YEAR: 1999 INITIAL PRICE: $1899 The Fujitsu Lifebook B142 is an ultralight computer that was oriented to compete with Sony`s ultra-books and Toshiba Libretto`s computers. It is a very well build machine and also it has a TFT touchscreen display witch makes this little computer the perfect business machine for people who are on the…
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
YEAR: Japan-1983 US-1985 EU-1986 INITIAL PRICE: $179 US Dollar, $451.79 in 2018 The Nintendo Entertainment System (commonly abbreviated as NES) is an 8-bit home video game console that was developed and manufactured by Nintendo. It was initially released in Japan as the Family Computer, commonly known by the portmanteau abbreviation Famicom FC on July 15, 1983, and was later released in New York City in 1985,…
I.C.E. Felix HC – 91
Year: 1985-1994 Initial Price: 9500 lei The HC stands for Home Computer and it represents a series of microcomputers made from 1985 until 1994 at ICE Felix București. They were based on the Z80 CPUs or the Romanian clone, the MMN80 CPU. The design has been inspired from the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. There were 5 series and sub-series of this computer. 1HC 85 2HC…
EPSON PC/486D4 International Space Station PC
YEAR: 1996-1999 Initial Price: UNKNOWN Seiko-Epson Electronics America has tackled the next frontier – Space – with one of its CARD-PC products flying high onboard the Space Shuttle, and future application aboard the International Space Station. After successfully withstanding radiation testing at the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility, the CARD-PC/486D4 was selected to serve as the…
ZEOS Contenda – SubNotebook Pioneer
YEAR: 1991 INITIAL PRICE: $5299 ZEOS (ZEOS International, Ltd.) was a PC manufacturer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Originally based in New Brighton, Minnesota, and founded by Gregory E. Herrick, the company incorporated in Minnesota in 1981. Among other notable firsts, ZEOS Contenda was one of the first notebook computers to be known as a SUBNOTEBOOK. The quality build and the…
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