Kaypro Advert - November 1988

Another week, another clone: this advert focuses on Kaypro's 286 computer, which was the first IBM AT clone launched back in 1985.

Although 80386 machines were around - not least Kaypro's own 386 - prices of the slightly-older 80286 CPU were falling significantly, so '286 machines were becoming increasingly competitive.

It didn't do much to help Kaypro though. The company's earliest machine - the CP/M-based Kaypro II luggable - had been very successful, but it had been late to convert to MS-DOS and the IBM PC market.

Before it could launch its own MS-DOS portable, Compaq had come along and stolen most of its market, and it never fully recovered. It went bankrupt in 1992.