Kaypro Advert - October 1988
From Personal Computer World
Kaypro laptop at rock-bottom price!
Kaypro seems to have gone a bit down market with its advertising for this one, featuring its Kaypro 2000+ laptop.
Instead of its usual retail price of £1,799, it was available "while stocks last" for only £999, which is about £3,380 in 2025.
Somewhat surprisingly for a company whose first product was a luggable micro designed specifically to take on Osborne's Osborne 1, the 2000 was the company's first and only laptop.
It was also its first computer to run MS-DOS - all its previous models had been CP/M - and in keeping with its previous business model it shipped with a bunch of MS-DOS software, including Wordstar and Microsoft's GW-BASIC[1].
Because it had been late to the MS-DOS world, Kaypro never regained the success and prominence it had enjoyed with its older CP/M micros, although it did hang on until 1990 until it finally went bankrupt[2].
Date created: 18 February 2024
Last updated: 11 December 2024
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