Kaypro laptop at rock-bottom price!

Kaypro seems to have gone a bit down market with its advertising for this one, featuring its Kaypro 2000+ laptop.

Instead of its usual retail price of £1,799, it was available "while stocks last" for only £999, which is about [[999|1988]] in [[now]].

Somewhat surprisingly for a company whose first product was a luggable micro designed specifically to take on Osborne's Osborne 1, the 2000 was the company's first and only laptop. 

It was also its first computer to run MS-DOS - all its previous models had been CP/M - and in keeping with its previous business model it shipped with a bunch of MS-DOS software, including Wordstar and Microsoft's GW-BASIC[source: https://www.si.edu/object/nmah_1843899].

Because it had been late to the MS-DOS world, Kaypro never regained the success and prominence it had enjoyed with its older CP/M micros, although it did hang on until 1990 until it finally went bankrupt[source: https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_1156670].
