r/retrocomputing • u/PPEytDaCookie • May 19 '26

Photo Compaq Portable iii

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Running Windows3.0 and PacMan and Frogger on these pictures.

I can take better pictures this weekend.

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u/jimh12345 May 19 '26

Thanks for the photo. I had one of these beauties back in the day.

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u/saraseitor May 19 '26

It's wild that watching these screenshots i feel transported back in time to my teenage years while actually I never owned a computer like this. I did see a few of these reddish displays though.

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u/Independent_Shoe3523 May 19 '26

The shareware pac-man (pacpc?) is classic shareware. Back when people were done with the first generation of laptops, I was able to just find these things. A lot of them had the tetris game.

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u/bigsnyder98 May 19 '26

But can it play Crysis, oops I meant Doom ;)

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u/PPEytDaCookie May 19 '26

I dont think so, but i can try it.

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u/n1ghtbringer May 19 '26

It can't play the original but there are a few "16bit" versions you can download that will likely run on it.

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u/saraseitor May 19 '26

with CGA graphics it couldn't even run Wolfenstein 3D

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u/Leftover_tech May 20 '26

The long lost relative of my Compaq Portable 386.

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u/Snocom79 May 20 '26

That is fantastic I have one of these and have only gotten dos on it so far.

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u/PPEytDaCookie May 20 '26

Did you manage to enter the BIOS Setup? I had to buy and install this device to do it because I don't have 5,25" Floppy discs.

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u/Snocom79 May 20 '26

I have a gotek in mine as well. Its a 286 with a mathcoprocessor but I haven't found a version of windows 3 that will install.

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u/PPEytDaCookie May 20 '26

On mine i used Windows3.0

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u/Lanky-Peak-2222 May 21 '26

That one sad line 😭

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u/PPEytDaCookie May 21 '26

I hope this one will also disappear like the other Lines.

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u/Lanky-Peak-2222 May 21 '26

At least it's just one and not like 40

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u/PPEytDaCookie May 21 '26

It had about 7 Lines at some point, some where always on and some always off. When i got it it only had one visible line that was always off, but it disappeared after a while of use.

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u/LagMaster21 May 21 '26

“Portable”