After winning an online auction for an 1980s vintage Compaq Portable PC, [leadacid44] discovered why it only cost him $5USD – the keyboard was shot. Not willing to accept having forked out $ ...

[Autuin] found a Compaq Portable III destined for the scrap bin ... Unfortunately, being a 286, the computer couldn’t do much. He could take the usual route; which is to remove all the internals ...

Although it was anything but small by today's standards, the Gavilan SC was more compact than rival IBM PC-compatible portable computers such as the 28 pounder (13 kg) Compaq Portable. Gavilan ...