The Link from Panasonic. The portable computer that lets you take the advantages of an office computer anywhere you go.

It's an advert from Matshushita Electric Industrial Co., trading as Panasonic, for its awkward-to-search-for "The Link" portable computer. 

Pitched less as a full-on microcomputer than perhaps <a href="sharp_pc1500_perscomp_may82">Sharp's PC-1500</a>, The Link nevertheless offered Microsoft BASIC and up to 52K RAM, which as the advert says was more than many desktop computers of the time. It also supported software in ROM form, and contained three empty ROM slots for expansion.

There was even a range of peripherals available for it, including an acoustic-coupler modem, a $349 TV adapter, and a custom Attaché case for $163[source: Computronics advert for The Link, Personal Computing, May 1982, p. 89]. It retailed for $500 for the entry-level model, or $600 for the version with BASIC. That's around [[400|1982]] in [[now]].
