Artifact Details

Title

Compaq Portable

Catalog Number

102798157

Type

Still image

Description

Select photographs were displayed in the Personal Computers section of CHM's Revolution exhibit with the following caption, "The success of this Compaq Portable inspired many other early IBM-compatible portables. Compaq licensed MS-DOS from Microsoft and legally reverse-engineered IBM’s BIOS software. It sold more than $150M worth of these computers in their first year."

Date

2010

Photographer

Richards, Mark

Extent

5

Collection Title

Mark Richards Collection

Credit

Gift of Mark Richards

Lot Number

X5763.2010

Related Records

X1227.96 Compaq Portable