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Kaypro Computer - manufacturer of portable computers The Kaypro II, released in 1982, was the first all-metal portable computer, competing successfully with the Osborne 1, shipping more than 10,000 units a month in 1983. Kaypro continued to manufacture a variety of CP/M-compatible systems throughout the 1980s, incorporating features such as higher-density floppy drives and hard drives, and as MS-DOS gained popularity, produced a number of IBM-compatible systems running that operating system as well. Andy Kay re-emerged with a second company, called Kay Computers, utilizing a similar sales strategy. www.compute-101.com /kaypro_computer.htm

Portable stove - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A portable stove is a stove specially designed to be portable and lightweight, as for camping. For backpacking stoves butane or a mixture of propane and isobutane are used. The simplest stove is a burner that contains the fuel, and which once lit burns until either it is snuffed or the fuel is exhausted. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Portable_stove   (2757 words)

Compaq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Compaq Portable was the first in the range of the Compaq portable series. The Compaq Portable was one of the progenitors of today's laptop. In 1985 Compaq released the Compaq Deskpro 286, a 16-bit desktop computer using an Intel 80286 microprocessor running at 6 MHz and capable of 7MB RAM, it was considerably faster than an IBM PC and was, like the Compaq Portable, also capable of running IBM software. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Compaq   (851 words)

Soup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Portable soup was devised in the 18th century by boiling seasoned meat until a thick, resinous syrup was left that could be dried and stored for months at a time. Soup is a savoury liquid food that is made by boiling ingredients, such as meat, vegetables and beans in stock or hot water, until the flavor is extracted, forming a broth. Thick soups are classified depending upon the type of thickening agent used: purées are vegetable soups thickened with starch; bisques are made from puréed shellfish thickened with cream; cream soups are thickened with béchamel sauce; and veloutés are thickened with eggs, butter and cream. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Soup   (1253 words)

IBM Portable - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The IBM Portable Personal Computer 5155 model 68 was an early portable computer developed by IBM after the success of Compaq's suitcase-size portable machine (the Compaq Portable). Unlike the design of the Compaq Portable, which used a very sharp double-scanning monitor and special CGA-compatible display card, IBM used a stock CGA board and a composite monitor, which was not as sharp. Obsolete Technology Website: IBM Portable PC 5155 model 68 en.wikipedia.org /wiki/IBM_Portable   (147 words)

IBM 5100 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The IBM 5100 Portable Computer was a desktop computer introduced in September 1975, six years before the IBM PC. IBM later used the same approach for its 1983 introduction of the XT/370 model of the IBM PC, which was a standard IBM PC XT with the addition of a System/370 emulator card. When the IBM PC was introduced in 1981, it was originally designated as the IBM 5150, putting it in the "5100" series, though its architecture wasn't directly descended from the IBM 5100. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/IBM_5100   (878 words)

Toilet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sex-separated public toilets are often difficult to negotiate for transgendered or androgynous people, who are often subject to embarrassment, harassment, or even assault or arrest by others offended by the presence of a person they interpret as being of the other gender (whether due to their outward presentation or their genital status). A toilet is a plumbing fixture primarily intended for the disposal of bodily wastes such as urine and feces. The most common type of toilet in the West is the flush toilet, although the squat toilet is still somewhat common in public restrooms in southern and eastern Europe (including parts of France, Greece, Italy, and the Balkans) as well as East Asia (China and Japan) and other places. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toilet   (878 words)

Portable soup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Portable soup was a precursor of modern bouillon cubes and dehydrated food. Portable soup is held to have been invented by Mrs Dubois, a London tradeswoman. Portable soup of less extended vintage was, according to the 1881 Household Cyclopedia, www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Portable_soup   (463 words)

Desk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For instance, an Armoire desk is a desk built within a large wardrobe-like cabinet usually having the height of a man or a woman. The ergonomic desk of the last decades is the newest addition to a long list of desk forms, but in a way it is only a refinement of the mechanically complex drawing table or drafting table of the end of the 18th century. The desk forms we are familiar with in this beginning of the millennium were born mostly in the 17th and 18th centuries. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Desk   (1525 words)

Macintosh Portable - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Mac Portable had a standard 1.44 MB floppy disk drive, an optional internal hard disk (a low-power 3.5" drive from Conner was used), and also offered the first optional internal modem in a Macintosh. The Macintosh Portable was Apple Computer's first attempt at making a portable Macintosh personal computer that held the power of a desktop Macintosh and included the capabilities of a professional business Macintosh such as the Macintosh IIci. Unlike later portable computers from Apple and other manufacturers, the battery is charged in series with the supply of power to the computer. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Macintosh_Portable   (547 words)

Osborne Computer Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia IBM 's 16-bit IBM PC was faster, more advanced, and offered a rapidly growing software library, and Compaq offered a portable computer that was almost 100% compatible with IBM's offering. Lee Felsenstein to develop his portable computer with the result being the Osborne 1. The peak sales per month for Osborne 1 personal computers over the course of the product lifetime was 10,000 units, despite the initial business plan for the computer predicting a total of only 10,000 units sold over the entire product lifecycle. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Osborne_Computer_Corporation   (547 words)

Lunchbox Computers - Custom Built Portable Computer Workstations Lunchboxes offer the possibility to utilize standard components in a portable platform: full-size motherboards, hard drives, CD-ROM drives, modems and specialty cards that require full length expansion slots can be used in a lunchbox chassis. Lunchbox Computers - Custom Built Portable Computer Workstations ...your source for custom built portable computer workstations since 1983. www.lunchboxcomputers.com   (547 words)

Compaq Portable - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Compaq Portable had basically the same hardware as an IBM PC-XT, transplanted into a luggable case, with Compaq's custom BIOS instead of IBM's. Compaq's efforts were possible because IBM had used mostly "off the shelf" parts for their PC, and because Microsoft had kept the right to license MS-DOS to other computer manufacturers. Compaq sold 53,000 units in the first year and set revenue records for American businesses in its first three years of operation. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Compaq_Portable   (387 words)

Sawmill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia By 1900, the largest sawmill in the world was operated by the Atlantic Lumber Company in Georgetown, South Carolina using logs floated down the Pee Dee River from as far as the edge of the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina. Prior to the invention of sawmills, boards were rived and planed, or more often sawn by two men with a whipsaw using saddleblocks to hold the log and a pit for the pitman who worked below and got the benefit of the sawdust in his eyes. The arrival of a sawmill was a large and stimulative step in the growth of a frontier community. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sawmill   (695 words)

Portable.NET - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Portable.NET has be vastly attacked by the Mono Community because of Novell's Mono project and therefore hasn't for long the attention it does merit, although the project is mature and stable enough to be used for many purposes on embedded systems. DotGNU Portable.NET is an implementation of the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI), more commonly known as.NET, includes everything that you need to compile and run C# and C applications that use the base class libraries, XML, and Systems.Windows.Forms. Portable.NET is a part of the DotGNU meta-project. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Portable.NET   (174 words)

MSN Encarta - Search View - Paleolithic Art Paleolithic art was first discovered in the 1860s, when French paleontologist Edouard Lartet found portable decorated objects in caves and rock shelters in southwestern France. The portable art was carved out of bone, antler, or stone, or modeled in clay. Human images are rare in cave paintings but more frequent in portable art. encarta.msn.com /text_761578676__1/Paleolithic_Art.html   (174 words)

Mobile phone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Originally, mobile phones were permanently installed in vehicles, but later versions such as the so-called "bag phones" were equipped with a cigarette lighter plug so that they could also be carried, and thus could be used as either mobile or as portable phones. Mobile phones were somewhat larger than current ones, and many were designed for permanent installation in cars (hence the term car phone), or as "transportable" phones the size of a briefcase. A cell phone is a portable telephone which receives or makes calls through a Cell site, or transmitting tower. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mobile_phone   (174 words)

What is portable? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary Portable and machine independent mean the same thing—that the software does not depend on a particular type of hardware. Portable computers include notebook and subnotebook computers, hand-held computers, palmtops, and PDAs. A portable computer is a computer small enough to carry. www.webopedia.com /TERM/P/portable.html   (174 words)

I C T Subscriptions Portable computers are often referred to as notebook or laptop computers. Portable computers are typically just larger than the size of an A4 telephone directory. Handheld, palmtop and personal digital assistants (PDAs) also come under the umbrella of portable computers; however, they are technically different from desktop machines. www.ictadvice.org.uk /index.php?section=te&cat=001001&rid=1808   (174 words)

Compaq Portable, the Company's First Product in 1982 The Compaq Portable was similar in performance to the IBM-PC with a 4.77 MHz 8088 processor, 128k of RAM, a single full-height 320k 5-1/4" floppy disk, and a built-in 9-inch green monochrome monitor. Compaq Computer was formed in 1982 and their first product announced in November 1982 was the Compaq Portable. The Compaq Portable superceded the Osborne 1 which could not run PC-DOS and had a smaller screen. www.cedmagic.com /history/compaq-portable.html   (167 words)

IBM 5155 computer The 5155 was little competition for the Compaq Portable computer, which was released one year prior, costs $700 less, but had the same CPU and ran just as fast. The IBM Portable Personal Computer 5155 Model 68 consists of a lightweight case with a carrying handle containing a built-in. This wasn't IBM's first portable computer, that would be the IBM 5100, released in 1975. members.cox.net /obsoletetechnology/ibm5155.html   (563 words)

26218.981015&ELEMENT_SET=DECL Another difficulty associated with using portable stoves during the winter is that the fuel bottle often becomes frozen to the ground when it comes into contact with the surrounding snow or ice. Depending on the season and the particular environment, these portable stoves may be assembled and operated directly on the ground, however, ground coverings, such as loose dirt, pine needles, snow, or grass create an unstable, awkward and potentially dangerous working surface. It is another object of the invention to provide a safe and practical support for use with a portable stove; It is a further object of the invention to provide a support to which a portable stove may be removably secured including a fuel supply, that may be easily assembled while wearing gloves or mittens. www.wipo.int /cgi-pct/guest/getbykey5?KEY=98/26218.981015&ELEMENT_SET=DECL   (3810 words)

Apple Macintosh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia They were the first portable computers with the keyboard behind a palm rest, and with a built-in pointing device (a trackball) in front of the keyboard. In mid-1999, Apple introduced the iBook, a new consumer-level, portable Macintosh that was designed to be similar in appearance to the iMac that had been introduced a year earlier. The Macintosh was hinted at on January 22, 1984, with the now-famous 1984 Super Bowl commercial directed by Ridley Scott. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Apple_Macintosh   (6940 words)

Portable Executable - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Portable Executable (PE) format is an executable file format used in 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows operating systems. The term "portable" refers to the format's portability across all 32-bit (and by extension 64-bit) Windows operating systems. PEBrowse a Portable Executable (Win32) file viewer/dissection utility en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Portable_Executable   (581 words)

Portable Life - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Portable Life was produced and co-written by former New Radicals -front man Gregg Alexander, who previously worked with Danielle Brisebois on Arrive All Over You and on the New Radicals' Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too. Portable Life is the second album by Danielle Brisebois. Originally scheduled to be released on 26 October 1999, the album was canceled by RCA Records for unknown reasons and remains unreleased. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Portable_Life   (581 words)

Patent 5361591: Portable life support system A portable life support system as in claim 13, wherein the circulation rate of the liquid cryogen is correlated to the respiration rate of the system user to regulate the temperature of the cooling liquid as the system user's respiration rate varies. A portable life support system as in claim 19, wherein the delivery rate of the liquid cryogen is correlated to the respiration rate of the system user to regulate the temperature of the cooling liquid as the system user's respiration rate varies. However, generally desirable characteristics of personal portable life support systems include a weight that can be carried by a single person, a size that can be carried by a single person without undue loss of mobility, operation without the necessity for an umbilical, and a design that will not impair the dexterity of the user. www.freepatentsonline.com /5361591.html   (581 words)

Style Cave Art It comprises portable pieces, such as figures or decorated objects carved in bone, antler, or stone or crudely modelled in clay, and cave art in the form of paintings, drawings, and engravings. Cave art is therefore not typical of Paleolithic art in general; caves are merely the places where most art has survived. Paleolithic art occurs all over the world but is most abundant in western Europe; and only the art of this area is considered here. arthistory.heindorffhus.dk /frame-Style01-CaveArt.htm   (581 words)

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