The Compaq "Portable" was a wonderful machine in its day. I had two of them. Though they were technically "portable" when compared to the IBM offerings, they we

The Compaq "Portable" was a wonderful machine in its day. I had two of them. Though they were technically "portable" when compared to the IBM offerings, they were damn heavy; I remember them being 50 to 60 lbs depending on how they were configured (single floppy, dual floppy, or floppy and a 20-40 MB hard drive). Lugging one through an airport generally resulted in far more exercise than most people would ever want on a business trip, so the old joke was, "The Compaq Portable was designed by engineers who thought if you put a handle on a refrigerator that made it portable."