Let’s see, to begin with, the fish weighed 22 pounds. So did the Compaq Portable II computer (in retrospect, perhaps “luggable” is more accurate). Here, in a British commercial from 1986 or ...

Like the fish, the Compaq Portable II weighs about 22 pounds, but there are differences. Whereas the computer includes 4.1 megabytes of memory, Cleese points out, the fish can't remember a thing.

A few years later, I lugged around a 23-pound Compaq Portable II before anyone had a computer you could carry. Now we all have portables and mobile is everything.

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 ...

This guide for use of the programming language BASIC is stored in a grey-brown padded vinyl binder containing documentation used with a Compaq portable computer. The computer has museum number ...

Compaq was proud of its ever-shrinking portables, as can be seen in the ad in the upper-left (it shows the Portable I, II, III, and SLT/286) sitting next to each other.

To transport it, you simply secure the keyboard to the main unit by locking two sliding latches. The closed case measures 20 by 8.5 by 15.3 inches and has a built-in carrying handle. So very portable.

The IBM PC-XT had a lot more expansion slots compared to the first IBM PC that launched in 1981, but it was not as big of a leap in other hardware specs. It also had a rival PC in the Compaq Portable.

Compaq was proud of its ever-shrinking portables, as can be seen in the ad in the upper-left (it shows the Portable I, II, III, and SLT/286) sitting next to each other.