Compaq portable questions (not laptop)

From: Jason Simpson <jason_at_xio.com>
Date: Thu Nov 12 16:05:32 1998

At 05:23 PM 11/12/98, you wrote:
> There was also a Portable III. I have five of them!! They're a little
>larger than a lunch box and have a 12 MHz 286 CPU and a fold out gas plasma
>screen. They have a place for a MODEM on an ISA card in the bottom of the
>case. And a place for a memory expansion card that held up to six SIMMs.
>The SIMMS that were available were 256K or 1 meg so you could have up to 6
>Megs & 640K of memory. There was an option to add a box on the back that
>contained an 8 bit and a 16 bit ISA slots. Mine have the box with the ISA
>card slots and I use them for portable instrument controllers.

Did they market a Portable III to 386 upgrade kit? I've got a Portable III
with a 386-20 (well, now a 486slc-40) in it, but it still has the III on
the case and the XT-style keyboard.

        -jrs

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