Kaypro
Sign in to saveKaypro Corporation was an American home and personal computer manufacturer based in Solana Beach, California, in the 1980s. The company was founded by Non-Linear Systems (NLS) to compete with the popular Osborne 1 portable microcomputer. Kaypro produced a line of rugged, luggable CP/M-based computers sold with an extensive software bundle which supplanted its competitors and quickly became one of the top-selling personal computer lines of the early 1980s.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Kaypro Corporation
- Company.logo
- Kaypro wordmark.svg
- Company.type
- Corporation
- Company.foundation
- 1981
- Company.defunct
- 1992
- Company.location
- Solana Beach, California
- Company.key_people
- Andrew Kay
- Company.industry
- Computer hardware
- Company.products
- Computers
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- Kaypro 10.jpg
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- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2001-00-00
- inception
- 1981-01-01
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- Kaypro
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- Software
- Reception
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Kaypro Corporation was an American home and personal computer manufacturer based in Solana Beach, California, in the 1980s. The company was founded by Non-Linear Systems (NLS) to compete with the popular Osborne 1 portable microcomputer. Kaypro produced a line of rugged, luggable CP/M-based computers sold with an extensive software bundle which supplanted its competitors and quickly became one of the top-selling personal computer lines of the early 1980s.
Kaypro was exceptionally loyal to its original customer base but slow to adapt to the changing computer market and the advent of IBM PC compatible technology. It faded from the mainstream before the end of the decade and was eventually forced into bankruptcy in 1992.