The Compaq Portable, the first legal IBM PC clone

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Dave Farquhar, writing at The Silicon Underground, looks back at the Compaq Portable, announced November 4, 1982. It was a suitcase-sized clone of the IBM PC with an Intel 8088 running at 4.77 MHz and MS-DOS. It wasn’t the first machine to run MS-DOS, but it was the first legal IBM PC clone with a…