Type: | Portable computer |
Graphics: | resolution 8-bit VGA, text |
Display: | Active TFT monochrome |
Sound: | PIT using a mini speaker |
Memory: | RAM |
Ramtype: | 72-pin SIMM |
Manufacturer: | Compaq Computer Corporation, United States |
Dimensions: | cm[1] |
Weight: | 7.9kg (17.4lb) |
Predecessor: | Compaq Portable 386 |
Family: | Compaq Portable series |
The Compaq Portable 486 is a computer released by Compaq Computer Corporation in 1991.[2] It was the last portable computer/"luggable" released under the Compaq Portable series of computers.[3]
The computer was released in several models with different hard disk configurations and in two screen types, a cheaper monochrome version and a more expensive active matrix color version, known as the Compaq Portable 486c. The street price with a was for the monochrome version and for the active matrix color version.[4] For a model with a, the price was for the monochrome version and US$10,999 for the active matrix color version, available after May 1992.
Both versions are equipped with a socketed Intel 80486DX CPU, DRAM (72-pin SIMM),[5] floppy, (P-ATA), and SCSI port for CD-ROM or tape.[6] On the front of the unit there two dials underneath the PC-speaker to adjust the brightness of the screen and the volume of the PC-speaker. The PC-speaker in the Compaq Portable 486 is unique in that there is a audio input jack on the side of the unit to allow a third party ISA sound card to pass through its audio output to the PC speaker.
Compaq released two versions of the Compaq Portable 486 with a faster, Intel 80486DX2 CPU, named the Compaq Portable 486/66 for the monochrome version and the Compaq Portable 486/66c for the color version.
Compaq worked with Network General which released branded versions of the Compaq Portable 486 as "Network Sniffers".[7]
A case-modified version of the colour screen variant with replaced internals was used as a prop in the 1995 film Hackers. With its internals replaced by those of a Macintosh laptop, it served as the character Dade Murphy's (Aliases: Zero Cool and Crash Override) primary computer for the first half of the film.
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