The laptop weighs 14 lbs and measures just over 4 high, by 13.5 wide, by 8.5 deep – fits an airline tray, says Compaq. The SLT/286 has an internal Nickel Cadmium battery pack that provides three hours of battery life and additional battery packs are available battery time can be extended by using an AC adapter that comes with the system. An optional desktop expansion base accommodates two 8/16-bit slots, and an optional external storage module houses a 5.25 floppy drive or a 40Mb tape back-up unit. Internally installed options include 1Mb memory boards to extend the memory beyond the standard 640Kb up to a maximum of 3.6Mb an asynchronous communications board and an 80C287 co-processor. The Compaq SLT/286 comes in two models, the Model 20 and the Model 40 both include a liquid crystal, supertwist VGA display with eight shades of grey, 29mS average access 20Mb or 40Mb 3.5 Winchesters from Conner Peripherals Inc, 3.5 1.44Mb floppy drive, and an 82-key removable keyboard, running MS-DOS and OS/2. With the prediction that sales of battery laptops will outstrip mains-powered devices by two to one in 1989, Compaq Computer Corp today announces a 12MHz CMOS 80286-based battery powered laptop computer of its own design.
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