Talk:Compaq/Archives/2021
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False claims/citations of "First PC Clone" or first portable, or first "legal" clone.
Columbia Data Products, Corona Data Systems and Eagle Computer all had the same idea as Compaq, and made "portable" (it might be more accurate to call them all-in-one's) IBM PC clones, indeed all of them beat Compaq. Columbia Data Products also did a clean-room reverse engineering of the IBM PC BIOS, although I believe other issues made their MPC1600 "Multi Personal Computer" less compatible than the Compaq Portable, and certainly had less sales. The continuing claims that Compaq had the first clone, the first luggable, or the first "legal" clone almost are notable enough to get their own section, if not it's own Wikipedia article! I'm not sure how much Compaq encouraged this, or how much it was the result of laziness of writers(both before and after Wikipedia). Certainly in terms of business, and it's presence in pop-culture, and even what could be called the Zeitgeist, Compaq made an indelible impact. It just wasn't "first" in any other sense of the term. As I own two Compaq Portables myself, I like to embrace it's "secondness" as revolutionary in its own way. It was first at being an amazing "second", lol. Maybe the statement and false citations about it being "first" should be removed, but I hesitate to do so. Maybe it should be noted what an amazing "not-first" the Compaq Portable Computer was! 76.120.37.128 (talk) 07:43, 9 April 2021 (UTC)