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Compaq Contura 400C Laptop

Producer: HP and Compaq - Category: Personal Computer

Laptop, 1994, Compaq. The Contura 400C belongs to the Contura line, Compaq's affordable notebooks of 1992 to 1996 that brought the company into the entry-level market. The 400 series of 1994 has a 486 processor, a colour LCD (the C suffix indicates the passive-matrix colour screen), a built-in trackball in front of the keyboard, PCMCIA slots and a removable hard disk, and was sold with MS-DOS and Windows 3.1.

Years1994 to 1995
ProcessorIntel 486 at 33 or 50 MHz depending on the version
RAM4 MB, expandable to 20 MB
Display9.5" passive-matrix colour LCD, 640 x 480
Storage3.5" floppy drive, 170 to 250 MB hard disk
Operating systemMS-DOS 6 and Windows 3.1
Portsserial, parallel, PCMCIA, external monitor, PS/2, trackball built in

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