Uploaded January 2020 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago

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The Compaq portable is the first ever legitimate IBM compatible PC. Before the Compaq Portable IBM was the only company to legally make a PC compatible with its software, so sit back a watch the tail of how a newly formed company took on the mighty IBM and got it's portable to market and ushered in the era of the IBM compatible PC.

This video also shows me repairing my Compaq Portable, and shows off some games in glorious green screen.