{"@context":["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",{"Hashtag":"as:Hashtag","sensitive":"as:sensitive","dcterms":"http://purl.org/dc/terms/","gts":"https://gotosocial.org/ns#","schema":"http://schema.org/","exifData":"schema:exifData","PropertyValue":"schema:PropertyValue","interactionPolicy":{"@id":"gts:interactionPolicy","@type":"@id"},"canQuote":{"@id":"gts:canQuote","@type":"@id"},"canReply":{"@id":"gts:canReply","@type":"@id"},"canLike":{"@id":"gts:canLike","@type":"@id"},"canAnnounce":{"@id":"gts:canAnnounce","@type":"@id"},"automaticApproval":{"@id":"gts:automaticApproval","@type":"@id"},"manualApproval":{"@id":"gts:manualApproval","@type":"@id"},"always":{"@id":"gts:always","@type":"@id"}}],"id":"https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=40388","type":"Article","attachment":[{"type":"Image","url":"https://i0.wp.com/dfarq.homeip.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/kaypro-ii-1982.jpg?fit=540%2C408\u0026#038;ssl=1","mediaType":"image/jpeg","name":"A Kaypro II luggable computer"}],"attributedTo":"https://dfarq.homeip.net/author/admin/","content":"\u003Cp\u003EOn May 20, 1982, Kaypro shipped its very successful Kaypro II computer, a portable computer that ran CP/M and its associated software. Its main innovation was bundling a selection of popular software with the computer and selling the bundle for less than the combined suggested retail price of the software.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C!--more--\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EA CP/M computer in 1982?\u003C/h2\u003E\u003Cfigure\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https://dfarq.homeip.net/?attachment_id=40389\u0022 rel=\u0022attachment wp-att-40389\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022https://i0.wp.com/dfarq.homeip.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/kaypro-ii-1982.jpg?resize=300%2C227\u0026#038;ssl=1\u0022 alt=\u0022A Kaypro II luggable computer\u0022 width=\u0022300\u0022 height=\u0022227\u0022 /\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cfigcaption\u003EA Kaypro II was a portable CP/M computer with everything you needed built in, priced competitively at $1795. That\u0026#8217;s why it sold well in spite of appearing pretty late for a CP/M machine.\u003C/figcaption\u003E\u003C/figure\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt may be surprising that a company was able to launch a successful computer running \u003Ca href=\u0022https://dfarq.homeip.net/cpm-operating-system/\u0022\u003ECP/M\u003C/a\u003E in 1982, after the introduction of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https://dfarq.homeip.net/ibm-pc-5150-revision-a-vs-revision-b/\u0022\u003EIBM PC\u003C/a\u003E. But the IBM PC didn\u0026#8217;t take over the industry overnight. In May 1982, the IBM PC had only been on the market for about six months, and while it was beginning to attract software development, its software library was limited and the computer itself was expensive.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKaypro sold the Kaypro II for $1,795 and the hardware included a 2.5 MHz Zilog Z-80 CPU, dual floppy drives, 64K of RAM, and a 9-inch monochrome display for the price. In the January 1983 issue of \u003Cem\u003EByte\u003C/em\u003E, longtime columnist Jerry Pournelle wrote about his initial experience with the Kaypro II. On page 431, in the middle of Pournelle\u0026#8217;s column, a mail order ad offered several competing computers. One of the computers on offer was an IBM PC with 64K of RAM and dual floppy drives, priced at $2699.95. The ad stated the retail price was $3185.95 for that configuration. It didn\u0026#8217;t include a monitor and the only software it included was IBM Cassette Basic in ROM. Even the operating system was a separate purchase.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe same ad offered a \u003Ca href=\u0022https://dfarq.homeip.net/franklin-computer-rise-and-fall-and-reinvention/\u0022\u003EFranklin\u003C/a\u003E Ace computer, a clone of the Apple II+, for $1499.95. It included a single floppy drive and a monitor at that price, but no software. So Kaypro priced its machine like an Apple II clone.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe popular narrative today is that the IBM PC killed CP/M overnight. But there was still plenty of room in the market in 1982 and 1983 for affordably priced CP/M machines. For a time, Kaypro sold 10,000 units a month, which was enough to make it the fifth largest computer maker in the world in 1983. Yes, it sold well even though \u003Ca href=\u0022https://dfarq.homeip.net/first-compaq-computer/\u0022\u003ECompaq launched its IBM-compatible portable\u003C/a\u003E around the same time.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003ECritical reception of the Kaypro II\u003C/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere wasn\u0026#8217;t anything reovlutionary about the Kaypro II. It was a briefcase-sized computer that ran CP/M. \u003Ca href=\u0022https://dfarq.homeip.net/osborne-computer-liquidated-april-9-1986/\u0022\u003EOsborne\u003C/a\u003E had been selling a computer that met that description for 13 months. But Kaypro gave you a much larger 9-inch screen and higher capacity disk drives for the same price as Osborne. It was a nice incremental improvement over the Osborne. And both of them came bundled with a selection of useful software.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe aluminum case met with mixed reviews. It was rugged and kept the machine\u0026#8217;s weight down. Even though its monitor was almost 40 percent larger than the Osborne, it only weighted 16 percent more. The 9-inch display that could render 80 columns of text was worth the extra 4 pounds. But both \u003Cem\u003EPC Magazine\u003C/em\u003E and \u003Cem\u003EPersonal Computing\u003C/em\u003E magazine mocked Kaypros as tin cans or tin boxes.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe general consensus was that Kaypro struck a nice balance. The Kaypro II was a utilitarian, unglamorous computer, durable, reliable, and completely adequate for someone needing to run early 1980s business software. Nothing about it was state of the art, but but it didn\u0026#8217;t have any major drawbacks either. It was solid.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EDrawbacks to the Kaypro II\u003C/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe major drawback of the Kaypro II was its lack of expandability. It had no expansion slots or any other kind of system or peripheral bus, just an RS-232 port for connecting it to a modem or another computer, and a Centronics parallel port for connecting a printer. Even upgrading from single-sided to double-sided disk drives wasn\u0026#8217;t a given. There were two different motherboards for the Kaypro II, only one of which supported double-sided drives.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe counter argument to this was that Kaypro included everything most users were going to want in 1982 for $1895. The system had 64K of RAM, two disk drives, and the ability to connect to a printer or modem.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKaypro started moving into IBM/\u003Ca href=\u0022https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-is-ms-dos/\u0022\u003EMS-DOS\u003C/a\u003E compatible computers in 1984, selling them alongside CP/M computers. Arguably, Kaypro waited too long to enter the IBM compatible market, and it went bankrupt in March 1990.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EKaypro in pop culture\u003C/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn Mike Judge\u0026#8217;s animated TV series King of the Hill, Peggy uses an old Kaypro computer from the 1980s, including a loud dot matrix printer. The illustration resembles a Kaypro 10 more than a Kaypro II, but it still fits the description of a tin box from the mid 1980s running CP/M, both long obsolete. 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Its main innovation was bundling a selection of popular software with the computer and selling the bundle for less than the combined suggested retail price of the software.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C!--more--\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EA CP/M computer in 1982?\u003C/h2\u003E\u003Cfigure\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https://dfarq.homeip.net/?attachment_id=40389\u0022 rel=\u0022attachment wp-att-40389\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022https://i0.wp.com/dfarq.homeip.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/kaypro-ii-1982.jpg?resize=300%2C227\u0026#038;ssl=1\u0022 alt=\u0022A Kaypro II luggable computer\u0022 width=\u0022300\u0022 height=\u0022227\u0022 /\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\u003Cfigcaption\u003EA Kaypro II was a portable CP/M computer with everything you needed built in, priced competitively at $1795. That\u0026#8217;s why it sold well in spite of appearing pretty late for a CP/M machine.\u003C/figcaption\u003E\u003C/figure\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt may be surprising that a company was able to launch a successful computer running \u003Ca href=\u0022https://dfarq.homeip.net/cpm-operating-system/\u0022\u003ECP/M\u003C/a\u003E in 1982, after the introduction of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https://dfarq.homeip.net/ibm-pc-5150-revision-a-vs-revision-b/\u0022\u003EIBM PC\u003C/a\u003E. But the IBM PC didn\u0026#8217;t take over the industry overnight. In May 1982, the IBM PC had only been on the market for about six months, and while it was beginning to attract software development, its software library was limited and the computer itself was expensive.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKaypro sold the Kaypro II for $1,795 and the hardware included a 2.5 MHz Zilog Z-80 CPU, dual floppy drives, 64K of RAM, and a 9-inch monochrome display for the price. In the January 1983 issue of \u003Cem\u003EByte\u003C/em\u003E, longtime columnist Jerry Pournelle wrote about his initial experience with the Kaypro II. On page 431, in the middle of Pournelle\u0026#8217;s column, a mail order ad offered several competing computers. One of the computers on offer was an IBM PC with 64K of RAM and dual floppy drives, priced at $2699.95. The ad stated the retail price was $3185.95 for that configuration. It didn\u0026#8217;t include a monitor and the only software it included was IBM Cassette Basic in ROM. Even the operating system was a separate purchase.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe same ad offered a \u003Ca href=\u0022https://dfarq.homeip.net/franklin-computer-rise-and-fall-and-reinvention/\u0022\u003EFranklin\u003C/a\u003E Ace computer, a clone of the Apple II+, for $1499.95. It included a single floppy drive and a monitor at that price, but no software. So Kaypro priced its machine like an Apple II clone.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe popular narrative today is that the IBM PC killed CP/M overnight. But there was still plenty of room in the market in 1982 and 1983 for affordably priced CP/M machines. For a time, Kaypro sold 10,000 units a month, which was enough to make it the fifth largest computer maker in the world in 1983. Yes, it sold well even though \u003Ca href=\u0022https://dfarq.homeip.net/first-compaq-computer/\u0022\u003ECompaq launched its IBM-compatible portable\u003C/a\u003E around the same time.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003ECritical reception of the Kaypro II\u003C/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThere wasn\u0026#8217;t anything reovlutionary about the Kaypro II. It was a briefcase-sized computer that ran CP/M. \u003Ca href=\u0022https://dfarq.homeip.net/osborne-computer-liquidated-april-9-1986/\u0022\u003EOsborne\u003C/a\u003E had been selling a computer that met that description for 13 months. But Kaypro gave you a much larger 9-inch screen and higher capacity disk drives for the same price as Osborne. It was a nice incremental improvement over the Osborne. And both of them came bundled with a selection of useful software.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe aluminum case met with mixed reviews. It was rugged and kept the machine\u0026#8217;s weight down. Even though its monitor was almost 40 percent larger than the Osborne, it only weighted 16 percent more. The 9-inch display that could render 80 columns of text was worth the extra 4 pounds. But both \u003Cem\u003EPC Magazine\u003C/em\u003E and \u003Cem\u003EPersonal Computing\u003C/em\u003E magazine mocked Kaypros as tin cans or tin boxes.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe general consensus was that Kaypro struck a nice balance. The Kaypro II was a utilitarian, unglamorous computer, durable, reliable, and completely adequate for someone needing to run early 1980s business software. Nothing about it was state of the art, but but it didn\u0026#8217;t have any major drawbacks either. It was solid.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EDrawbacks to the Kaypro II\u003C/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe major drawback of the Kaypro II was its lack of expandability. It had no expansion slots or any other kind of system or peripheral bus, just an RS-232 port for connecting it to a modem or another computer, and a Centronics parallel port for connecting a printer. Even upgrading from single-sided to double-sided disk drives wasn\u0026#8217;t a given. There were two different motherboards for the Kaypro II, only one of which supported double-sided drives.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe counter argument to this was that Kaypro included everything most users were going to want in 1982 for $1895. The system had 64K of RAM, two disk drives, and the ability to connect to a printer or modem.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKaypro started moving into IBM/\u003Ca href=\u0022https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-is-ms-dos/\u0022\u003EMS-DOS\u003C/a\u003E compatible computers in 1984, selling them alongside CP/M computers. Arguably, Kaypro waited too long to enter the IBM compatible market, and it went bankrupt in March 1990.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EKaypro in pop culture\u003C/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn Mike Judge\u0026#8217;s animated TV series King of the Hill, Peggy uses an old Kaypro computer from the 1980s, including a loud dot matrix printer. The illustration resembles a Kaypro 10 more than a Kaypro II, but it still fits the description of a tin box from the mid 1980s running CP/M, both long obsolete. 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Its main innovation was bundling a selection of popular software with the computer and selling the bundle for less than the combined suggested retail price of the software. [\u2026]"},"published":"2026-05-20T11:00:01Z","summary":"On May 20, 1982, Kaypro shipped its very successful Kaypro II computer, a portable computer that ran CP/M and its associated software. Its main innovation was bundling a selection of popular software with the computer and selling the bundle for less than the combined suggested retail price of the software. [\u2026]","summaryMap":{"en":"On May 20, 1982, Kaypro shipped its very successful Kaypro II computer, a portable computer that ran CP/M and its associated software. Its main innovation was bundling a selection of popular software with the computer and selling the bundle for less than the combined suggested retail price of the software. 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