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===Kaypro=== Another early portable computer released in 1982 was named the [[Kaypro II]], although it was the company's first commercially available product. Some of the press mocked its design—one magazine described [[Kaypro Corporation]] as "producing computers packaged in tin cans".<ref name="dickinson198607">{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5hdeC0k_JHwC&pg=PA116 | title=Kaypro 2000 | work=PC | date=July 1986 | access-date=9 January 2015 | author=Dickinson, John | pages=116}}</ref> Others raved about its value, as the company advertised the Kaypro II as "the {{US$|long=no|1595}} computer that sells for {{US$|long=no|1595}}",<ref name="kaypro198401">{{cite news | url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1984-01/BYTE-1984-01#page/n395/mode/2up | title=The {{US$|long=no|1595}} Computer That Sells for {{US$|long=no|1595}}. | work=BYTE | date=January 1984 | access-date=20 January 2015 | pages=390 | type=advertisement}}</ref> some noting that the included software bundle had a retail value over {{US$|long=no|1000}} by itself, and by mid-1983 the company was selling more than 10,000 units a month, briefly making it the fifth-largest computer maker in the world. It managed to correct most of the [[Osborne 1]]'s deficiencies: the screen was larger and showed more characters at once, the floppy drives stored over twice as much data, the case was more attractive-looking, and it was also much better-built and more reliable.
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