I'm My Own Grandpa
The Kaypro 1. There's something about the form and proportions of this computer that I've always absolutely loved. It's just so perfect. It's so trim and functional and nicely laid-out. It proves that beautiful things can be made just by bending sheet metal.
It runs CP/M -- an 8-bit OS that I have a lot of fondness for -- and it was mostly just a host organism for WordStar. The final piece of the Kaypro 1 Awrsomness argument: Arthur C. Clarke wrote on one.
When do you think this was made? Take a guess. It's a Z80-based CP/M machine, so it must have predated Windows and probably even DOS. The industrial design clearly wasn't influenced by the Mac, which was released in 1984. Also, as the Kaypro 1, you can guess that it was the first model that Kaypro made.
Correct! 1986. The Kaypro 1 was the about the 10th model the company released, coming out 4 years after the Kaypro 2, their first computer, which was followed immediately by the Kaypro 10.
I am not making any of this up.
I'm My Own Grandpa
The Kaypro 1. There's something about the form and proportions of this computer that I've always absolutely loved. It's just so perfect. It's so trim and functional and nicely laid-out. It proves that beautiful things can be made just by bending sheet metal.
It runs CP/M -- an 8-bit OS that I have a lot of fondness for -- and it was mostly just a host organism for WordStar. The final piece of the Kaypro 1 Awrsomness argument: Arthur C. Clarke wrote on one.
When do you think this was made? Take a guess. It's a Z80-based CP/M machine, so it must have predated Windows and probably even DOS. The industrial design clearly wasn't influenced by the Mac, which was released in 1984. Also, as the Kaypro 1, you can guess that it was the first model that Kaypro made.
Correct! 1986. The Kaypro 1 was the about the 10th model the company released, coming out 4 years after the Kaypro 2, their first computer, which was followed immediately by the Kaypro 10.
I am not making any of this up.