At least that’s the hurdle [Chris Fenton] set for himself as a fun project for his spare time with his Kaypro 2/84, a vintage Z80 clocking in at a screaming 4 MHz and 64-kB of RAM.

Commentator Andrei Codrescu remembers the first word processor he had — the Kaypro II in the 1980s. Its inventor, Andrew Kay, died Aug. 28, at the age of 95.

Kaypro 2000 Kaypro Corp., which makes many popular CP/M-based machines (especially great for writers), has introduced four new MS-DOS computers in the last six months. The company has taken an ...

How important his 24 pound luggable Kaypro was on the road to the 3 pound ultrabook. If I had met Mr. Kay I would have told him that his computer helped me to understand that I was smart, and that I ...

Kaypro Corp., Solana Beach, Calif., showed its first profitable quarter in a year. The microcomputer company had earnings of $788,000, or 2 cents a share, in the second quarter ended Feb. 28, up ...

Kaypro computers used the CP/M operating system and missed the transition to Microsoft’s MS-DOS, which evolved into Windows. The company, renamed Kaypro Corp., filed for bankruptcy in 1990.

Andrew Kay, an inventor who pioneered the use of compact computers in the 1980s with Kaypro II, died Aug. 28 at an assisted living home in Vista, Calif. He was 95. His son, David Kay, confirmed ...

The Kaypro II weighed in at a mere 26 pounds and was a favorite of early computer aficionados. Somebody called it a portable, but it was really a luggable. It looked like it could take a direct hit ...