The Compaq Portable 486 is a computer released by

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/"luggable" released under the

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of computers. The computer was released in several models with different hard disk configurations and in two screen types, a cheaper monochrome version and a more expensive active matrix color version, known as the Compaq Portable 486c. The street price with a was for the monochrome version and for the active matrix color version.books.google.com - InfoWorld 1992-05-04
/ref> For a model with a , the price was for the monochrome version and US$10,999 for the active matrix color version, available after May 1992. Both versions are equipped with a socketed

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port for

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/ref> On the front of the unit there two dials underneath the PC-speaker to adjust the brightness of the screen and the volume of the PC-speaker. The PC-speaker in the Compaq Portable 486 is unique in that there is a audio input jack on the side of the unit to allow a third party

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to pass through its audio output to the PC speaker. Compaq released two versions of the Compaq Portable 486 with a faster,

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, named the Compaq Portable 486/66 for the monochrome version and the Compaq Portable 486/66c for the color version. Compaq worked with

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which released branded versions of the Compaq Portable 486 as "Network Sniffers". A case-modified version of the colour screen variant with replaced internals was used as a prop in the 1995 film ''

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''. With its internals replaced by those of a Macintosh laptop, it served as the character Dade Murphy's (Aliases: Zero Cool and Crash Override) primary computer for the first half of the film. Environmental limits are: * Temperature operating , nonoperating * Relative humidity (noncondensing) Operating , Nonoperating * Maximum unpressurized altitude operating , nonoperating * Shock , , half sine (nonoperating Vibration, Operating , ,

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References

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