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Portable II was significantly lighter than its
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Portable 286 weighed. Compaq only shipped the system with a small demo disk,
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506:2018-10-22
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196:Dimensions
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128:hard drive
92:MS-DOS 3.1
68:1986-02-20
1119:AltaVista
1098:DEC Alpha
1041:Handhelds
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955:ProSignia
863:Portables
818:HP Compaq
761:ProSignia
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646:Ben Rosen
639:Directors
604:Corporate
478:InfoWorld
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