Producer: Various - Category: Personal Computer
Portable computer, 1985, Ericsson. The Ericsson Portable PC is a Swedish IBM-compatible luggable that stood out for its orange gas plasma display, one of the first flat screens on a portable PC, which showed 25 lines of 80 characters at 640 x 400 and was far more readable than the LCDs of the time. It has an 8088 at 4.77 MHz, 256 KB of RAM, a single 5.25" drive and a detachable keyboard, and could be ordered with a built-in thermal printer and modem. It weighed about 8 kg and had no battery.
| Years | 1985 to 1987 |
| Processor | Intel 8088 at 4.77 MHz |
| RAM | 256 KB, expandable to 512 KB |
| Display | orange gas plasma, 640 x 400, 80 x 25 characters |
| Storage | 5.25" floppy drive of 360 KB |
| Operating system | MS-DOS 2.1 |
| Ports | RS-232, parallel, external monitor; optional thermal printer and modem |
| Weight | 8 kg |
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