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The Kaypro II's market success was due to a number of factors: it had a larger screen than the Osborne ; it was a relatively inexpensive, simple to set up closed architecture system at a time when first-time computer buyers made up almost the entirety of the market ; it came bundled with popular third-party application software ( PerfectWriter and PerfectCalc, later to be replaced by MicroPro's WordStar and CalcStar ); and it was supported by a network of trained dealers.
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Kaypro and market
While exceptionally loyal to its original consumer base, Kaypro was slow to adapt to the changing computer market and the advent of IBM PC compatible technology.
Osborne Computer Corporation was unable to effectively respond to the Kaypro challenge until after the market window had closed and the day of the 8-bit, CP / M-based computer had ended.
At IBM, the threat proved to be real: most of the market eventually went to cloners like Compaq, Leading Edge, Tandy, Kaypro, Packard Bell, and dozens of smaller companies, and in short order IBM found it had lost control over its own platform.
Kaypro and success
Following the success of the Kaypro II, Kaypro moved on to produce a long line of similar computers into the mid 80s.
Kaypro and was
With the Z-machine, Infocom was able to release most of their games for most popular home computers of the day simultaneously — the Apple II family, Atari 800, IBM PC compatibles, Amstrad CPC / PCW ( one disc worked on both machines ), Commodore 64, Commodore Plus / 4, Commodore 128, Kaypro CP / M, Texas Instruments TI-99 / 4A, the Mac, Atari ST, the Commodore Amiga and the Radio Shack TRS-80.
The first digital voltmeter was invented and produced by Andrew Kay of Non-Linear Systems ( and later founder of Kaypro ) in 1954.
Kaypro Corporation, commonly called Kaypro, was an American home / personal computer manufacturer of the 1980s.
The first product, the Kaypro II, carried the Roman-numeral designation because one of the most popular microcomputers at the time was the Apple II.
The Kaypro II was designed to be portable like the Osborne.
By mid-1983, Kaypro had dropped the price to $ 1, 595, and was selling more than 10, 000 units a month — briefly making it the fifth-largest computer maker in the world.
Another popular magazine that covered Kaypro computers was Micro Cornucopia, published at Bend, Oregon.
The Kaypro name briefly re-emerged as an online vendor of Wintel PCs in 1999, but was discontinued in 2001 by its parent company Premio Computers Inc. because of sluggish sales.
** Kaypro 286i-A 6 MHz 286 desktop, it was the first IBM PC / AT compatible, with dual 1. 2 MB floppy drives standard and an extensive software package but no MS-DOS 3. 0, which had not yet been released, requiring the user to purchase PC-DOS 3. 0 from IBM.
** Kaypro 1-The Kaypro 1 was the last CP / M model Kaypro introduced.
In most ways, it was simply a Kaypro 2X with a smaller software package.
The Osborne's popularity was surpassed by the similar Kaypro II which had a much more practical CRT that could display the standard 80 characters on 24 lines as well as double density floppies that could store twice as much data.
Unlike the Kaypro, Attache was not IBM compatible.
Another early portable computer released in 1982 was the Kaypro.
Purportedly, the new Executive model from Osborne Computer was priced at US $ 2, 195 and came with a screen, while competitor Kaypro produced a computer with a screen for US $ 400 less.
The Z80 eventually became the most popular microcomputer family as it was used in millions of embedded devices as well as in many home computers and computers using the de-facto standard CP / M operating system, such as the Osborne, Kaypro, and TRS-80 models.
The former research lab at the stern of the ship was converted into two broadcast studios plus a newsroom, which contained a Kaypro 4 computer and telex link for communicating with the station's office in New York.
Kaypro and number
A number of important commercial CP / M products were written in the BDS C subset of the C language, including Mince and Scribble from Mark of the Unicorn, and most of the software in the Perfect Software suite including Perfect Writer, PerfectCalc, PerfectSpeller and PerfectFiler ( which suite was bundled with the Kaypro ).
Kaypro and had
Exceedingly loyal to its original core group of customers, Kaypro continued using the CP / M operating system long after it had been abandoned by its competitors.
The Kaypro computer had already begun to cut into sales of the Osborne 1 ( a computer with a screen for US $ 1, 995 ), but inventories of the Osborne 1 cleared out, and customers switched almost entirely to the Kaypro.
That meant that Kaypro had its own system ; so did many of the other small manufacturers.
Kaypro and larger
Kaypro Computer offered portables that, like the Osborne 1, ran CP / M and included a software bundle, but Kaypro offered larger 9 inch ( 229 mm ) screens.
Kaypro and Osborne
For example, one Kaypro used them for Greek characters, and Osborne machines used the 8th bit set to indicate an underlined character.
The forerunners of the desktop replacement were the portable computers of the early-to-mid 1980s, such as the Osborne I, Kaypro II, the Compaq Portable and the Commodore Executive 64 ( SX-64 ) computers.
The Digibarn has a major focus on the legacy of Xerox and the birth of the Graphical User Interface with a large collection of Apple products, although other historic computer systems are featured, including the Atari 400, Osborne 1, Kaypro II and the IBM 5150 ( IBM PC ).
Kaypro and ;
Kaypro published and subsidized ProFiles: The Magazine for Kaypro Users, a monthly, 72-page, four-color magazine that went beyond coverage of Kaypro's products to include substantive information on CP / M and MS-DOS ; frequent contributors included Ted Chiang, David Gerrold, Robert J. Sawyer, and Ted Silveira.
Kaypro and system
* Aliens ( Kaypro video game ), a text-only clone of Space Invaders written for the CP / M operating system
Ladder is a barrel-jumping game ( like Donkey Kong ) written for the CP / M operating system and made to be operated on the early Kaypro line of luggable computers.
Kaypro and computer
Kaypro produced a line of rugged, portable CP / M-based computers sold with an extensive software bundle which supplanted its competitors and quickly became one of the top selling personal computer lines of the early 1980s.
In 1982, Non-Linear Systems organized a daughter company named the Kaypro Corporation and rechristened the computer with the same name.
During the early 1980s the company started Kaypro, which developed an early personal computer.
Kaypro and came
Along with Star Trek, CatChum and Aliens, Ladder was one of the games that came with the software bundle of the early Kaypro computers.
Kaypro and with
Boy with Kaypro II, 1984.
It wasn't until 1985 that Kaypro began producing IBM compatible MS-DOS machines, the Kaypro 16 ( transportable, same form factor as the Kaypro II ), the Kaypro PC, Kaypro 286i ( the first 286 IBM PC AT compatible ), the Kaypro 386, and the Kaypro 2000 ( a rugged aluminum-body battery-powered laptop with a detachable keyboard ).
After several turbulent years, with sales dwindling, Kaypro filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in March 1990.
Kaypro founder Andy Kay re-emerged from the final failure of Kaypro with a second company, called Kay Computers, utilizing a similar sales strategy.
** Kaypro 386-A 20 MHz 386 desktop, with an extensive software package.
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