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A look at the Compaq Portable 1. Now that we have a functional keyboard let's look at the inside and run a few programs.
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[@Runco990]

I had one of those back in the day. While I personally see no value in keeping obsolete computers, I always thought it would be fun to put a modern super fast machine into a case like that and have a stealth machine. How weird it seems to watch this on an Intel NUC that fits in my hand today.

[@evensgrey]

Space War is one of the most important computer games ever created.
If was originally written for the PDP-1, the first computer DEC produced. It later was the basis of at least two prototype arcade machines, as well as providing a great deal of the basis of the venerable Asteroids arcade game. It was also the reason the original UNIX operating system was created. (To provide the OS level so it could be run on a scrounged minicomputer at what was then the MULTCS development site.) MULTICS was ultimately a commercial failure, but UNIX quickly became, and continues to be, one of the dominant operating systems.)

[@Anangelspath]

As opposed to your illegal copy….. just kidding thanks for sharing your adventures

[@g4z-kb7ct]

15:30 If you want the most memory free use DOS 5. There's nothing useful in 6.22 vs DOS 5 for a XT and it uses more base memory with no way of recovering it because on an XT you don't have UMB etc so you can't run himem.sys. On an XT only go up to DOS 5.