While primative by today's standards, the computer was wonderful.

Both computers work and I have that library of software and books that were included with Kaypros. I also have an earlier Kaypro 2 which had single sided drives each with a capacity of about 200 kilobytes. Kaypros were made in Solona Beach, California, north of San Diego. It weighed 26 pounds and was the portable computer of the day. For that you got 64 kilobytes of RAM, two double-sided disk drives each having a capacitiy of 400 kilobytes, and a 9 inch monochrome monitor. The Kaypro 4 sold for $1,800 at the time, about $3,300 in today's dollars. Kaypro 4, I rented one of these to type my 265 page master's thesis in 1984. Averatec | Osborne | IBM | DEC | Xerox | Compaq | HP | Dell | Mac | Apple II | Apple Laptops | TRS | Commodore | Atari | TI | Timex | Coleco Be sure to click on the links for additional information and photos.

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