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Priced at $4,000, the first ever "laptop" weighed 9 pounds ... portable computers such as the 28 pounder (13 kg) Compaq Portable. Gavilan Computer Corp. declared bankruptcy and closed in 1985.

The consensus of analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial/First Call was that Compaq would make a penny per share. "Our first quarter results continue to demonstrate Compaq's strong focus on ...