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impossible for its size , the LTE seems impossible now". He opined that the power-efficient nature of the 80C86 did not warrant the same heavy battery as that of the LTE/286 but found, as a consequence, the laptop lasted over five hours on a single charge, without any power-conservation features enabled. Fredric Burke of the same publication, reviewing the LTE/286 a year after its release, called it "the class act in its field", praising its expandability, the legibility of the LCD, and the performance of the battery.
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LTE's keyboard layout and keyfeel inferior to that of the MinisPort and decrying the lack of a docking station option on the initial LTE models as "effectively rul out the systems as primary machines", Knorr wrote that, "Quibbles like these aside, the LTEs seem certain to sell like snow chains in ski season".
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November 1991, Compaq added a 84-MB-drive model. Despite the optimizations in manufacturing, the LTE/386s' weight and thickness was increased slightly compared to its predecessors, from 6.7 pounds (3.0 kg) to 7.5 pounds (3.4 kg) and from 1.6 inches (41 mm) thick to 2.2 inches (56 mm).
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slots to the machine and two 5.25-inch drive bays. Compaq shipped their docking station with a VGA monitor and a standard desktop keyboard. The docking station connected to the back of the LTE/386s via a new specialized connector on the rear of the laptop; a new sliding port door was added to protect
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on the sides of the case over a year after their market introduction. It was the first time in Compaq's history that any of the company's products suffered a widespread defect. Following the incident, in
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of their own design. Furthermore, the LTE/386s was the first of Compaq's laptops to use Conner's portable-oriented hard drives, whose platter diameters measured 2.5 inches across as opposed to 3.5 inches across. On launch, the LTE/386s was available with either 30-MB or 60-MB hard drives;
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featured the LTE on the front cover of their
December 1989 issue; in it, reviewer Eric Knorr wrote: "Compatible, capacious mass storage makes the LTE series a genuine breakthrough. Forget about the UltraLite's credit-card-ROM applications and the MinisPort's 2-inch floppy drive." While finding the
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processor clocked at 20 MHz. The stock memory was bumped up to 2 MB, expandable to 10 MB, with the same proprietary RAM cards as its predecessor; the number of card slots was increased to two for the LTE/386s. The LTE/386s also replaced the stubbly display panel of the older models
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called the LTE and LTE/286, "without reservation, the most exciting and usable laptops on the market", albeit very expensive at over US$ 3,500 and $ 5,000 at launch, respectively. Of the 80C86-based LTE, Jones wrote called the machine "somewhat miraculous ... In the same way the UltraLite seemed
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in 1988 and their first attempt at a truly lightweight portable computer. The LTE line proved highly popular—Compaq selling hundreds of thousands of units between the three—and gave way to successive generations of the line, including the
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in order to save weight and reduce the amount of fragile wires and cables needed to communicate between different components and boards. In a further bid for miniaturization, Compaq populated the LTE/386s' motherboard with ten
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plastic different than the ones used on their earlier portable machines. While Compaq believed the new formulation to have been better for strength characteristics, a significant number of units began developing hairline
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cards. This approach was technically impressive but led to slow adoption rates by consumers due to the difficulty of transferring data to and from IBM PCs and compatibles because of the lack of an internal floppy drive.
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had built their entire computing ecosystem around by that point in 1989. Compaq shipped the remaining units of the first generation of LTEs in 1993 after having launched the next generation in the line, the
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adapter for the LTE/386s that fits into its modem expansion slot, allowing the computer to be used with an optional external CD-ROM drive, making it one of the first laptops to natively support CD-ROM.
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would cover the United States, Canada, and
Australia. This was the first time that Citizen, primarily a manufacture of timepieces and precision electronics, had manufactured an entire computer system.
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in 1988. Weighing in at 4.4 pounds (2.0 kg), the UltraLite eschewed from conventional floppy and hard disk drives for software and data storage, in favor of proprietary
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sold by Compaq. Yet another option was a 2,400 bit/s internal modem or a second serial port; both slot into the same option connector on the right side of the machine.
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dealers for customers requesting repairs to their defective units. For the LTE/386s, Compaq sourced a more durable ABS plastic than either of the two previous resins.
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notebook and helped launch the fledgling PC notebook industry, which had seen earlier attempts fail due to the use of novel but nonstandard data storage.
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100. We have seen no other machine that comes close to combining the power and battery life of the LTE/286 in so small and light a package.
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graphics in sixteen shades of gray. It marked the first time since their SLT in 1988 that Compaq supported VGA in a portable of theirs.
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1265:"Notebook-sized Compaq LTE and LTE/286 Set New Laptop Standard"
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clocked at 9.54 MHz, while the LTE/286 is based on the
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graphics in four shades of gray. The screens contain a blue
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1598:"Compaq cuts prices; announces new 84MB LTE notebook"
1420:"First 4MB memory-expansion board for Compaq LTE/286"
1930:"Apple PowerBook: Design Quality and Time to Market"
1828:"Compaq Computer Corp.: Compaq LTE 386s/20 Model 30"
1730:"Component Pinch Continues to Dog Laptop Production"
1688:"Compaq to switch plastics to prevent laptop cracks"
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The designers behind the LTE/386s made heavy use of
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1576:"Compaq to Take Lead, for Now, with Notebook PC"
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2016:"Big, fast and Texan"
1877:"Making a Difference"
1525:"Big, fast and Texan"
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1553:"Compaq Lightens Up"
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598:PC Magazine
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398:displaying
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331:Radio Shack
199:Predecessor
189:Intel 386SX
177:Intel 80C86
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1305:InfoWorld
698:Processor
664:PowerBook
607:InfoWorld
570:InfoWorld
560:InfoWorld
368:MinisPort
351:UltraLite
343:briefcase
262:LTE Elite
209:Successor
185:(LTE/286)
123:1989–1993
43:Developer
2598:Software
2551:C series
2536:Concerto
2479:Presario
2467:Consumer
2365:Portable
2358:Business
2335:Presario
2328:Consumer
2293:ProLinea
2274:Business
2267:Desktops
2213:ProLiant
2194:Hardware
2153:Microcom
2099:Founders
1557:PC World
1144:PC World
1092:(2013).
732:External
725:memory (
672:ThinkPad
645:LTE Lite
588:PC World
460:LTE/386s
258:LTE Lite
230:LTE/386s
213:LTE Lite
120:Lifespan
90:notebook
2610:OpenVMS
2474:Contura
2281:Deskpro
2219:NonStop
2201:Servers
2092:aspects
2082:in 2015
2076:HP Inc.
2020:PC User
1998:PC User
1757:PC Week
1529:PC User
1015:640Ă—480
979:640Ă—480
943:640Ă—480
908:640Ă—200
873:640Ă—200
838:640Ă—200
803:640Ă—200
768:640Ă—200
619:DOS API
579:NEC V20
523:Defects
308:SLT/286
237:laptops
226:LTE/286
112:1989-10
110: (
37:LTE/286
2567:tc1100
2556:tc1000
2446:Armada
2173:(1999)
2167:(1998)
2161:(1997)
2155:(1997)
2060:Compaq
1970:
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1908:et seq
1533:et seq
1384:et seq
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692:Model
682:Models
625:Legacy
617:, and
615:MS-DOS
574:'s
534:cracks
516:CD-ROM
442:RS-232
427:80C287
415:80C286
312:laptop
260:, the
249:laptop
241:Compaq
228:, and
154:MS-DOS
86:Laptop
59:Compaq
47:Compaq
2490:R3000
2429:Elite
2310:Elite
1881:eWeek
1376:Lotus
846:None
776:None
741:(MB)
734:cache
723:Stock
715:(in.)
705:(MHz)
703:speed
701:Clock
652:Apple
495:ASICs
423:Intel
411:80C86
327:HX-20
323:Epson
298:with
179:(LTE)
100:First
2615:TACL
2546:Aero
2485:1200
2424:Lite
2375:Plus
2171:Zip2
2078:and
1968:ISBN
1938:ISBN
1501:XXIV
1424:EDGE
1215:ISBN
1100:ISBN
1051:ISBN
794:9.54
759:9.54
736:(KB)
727:max.
718:LCD
713:size
711:LCD
654:and
446:RGBI
419:CMOS
384:8086
357:and
317:The
220:The
82:Type
2451:Evo
2414:LTE
2409:SLT
2402:486
2397:386
2392:III
2380:286
2316:Pro
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2298:Evo
2286:386
905:8.8
870:8.8
835:8.8
800:8.8
765:8.8
739:HDD
656:IBM
529:ABS
511:ISA
479:VGA
400:CGA
395:LCD
388:286
359:RAM
355:ROM
349:'s
347:NEC
333:'s
325:'s
302:'s
300:IBM
253:SLT
245:LTE
222:LTE
203:SLT
169:CPU
76:LTE
17:LTE
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2680:HP
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