Kaypro

Kaypro Corporation, usually called short Kaypro, was an American manufacturer of portable computer from the early 1980s. The company was founded by the electronics company Non- Linear Systems, chaired by Andrew Kay to occur in the emerging market of portable computers to compete with models such as the Osborne 1.

Kaypro provided computers with durable metal housing in cuboid shape to sold relatively inexpensively included software package. This enabled the company, with their models Kaypro II Kaypro 4 and in a relatively short time to reach high sales figures in the field of portable computer under the operating system CP / M.

However Kaypro reacted too slowly to the change in the market towards IBM PC compatible systems. Thus, it slipped to the end of the 1980s, strong in market position from 1992 and eventually went bankrupt.