{
    "id": "Kaypro II - Applications",
    "name": "Kaypro II - Applications",
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        "Kaypro II"
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}

{
    "id": "Kaypro II - Compilations",
    "name": "Kaypro II - Compilations",
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        "Kaypro II"
    ]
}

{
    "id": "Kaypro II - Educational",
    "name": "Kaypro II - Educational",
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        "Kaypro II"
    ]
}

{
    "id": "Kaypro II - Firmware",
    "name": "Kaypro II - Firmware",
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        "Kaypro II"
    ]
}

{
    "id": "Kaypro II - Games",
    "name": "Kaypro II - Games",
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        "Kaypro II"
    ]
}

{
    "id": "Kaypro II - Operating Systems - [IMD]",
    "name": "Kaypro II - Operating Systems - [IMD]",
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        "Kaypro II"
    ]
}

{
    "id": "Kaypro II - Operating Systems - [TD0]",
    "name": "Kaypro II - Operating Systems - [TD0]",
    "altNames": [
        "Kaypro II"
    ]
}

{
    "type_id": 1,
    "id": 550,
    "pages": {
        "photos": "photos.asp?t=1&c=550&st=1",
        "adverts": "photos.asp?t=2&c=550&st=1",
        "emulators": "emulator.asp?c=550&st=1",
        "links": "links.asp?c=550&st=1",
        "docs": "docs.asp?c=550&st=1",
        "comments": "forum.asp?c=550&st=1"
    },
    "image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/kaypro_2-83_1.jpg",
    "company_link": "company.asp?st=1&m=92",
    "company_name": "Kaypro",
    "company_logo": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/logos/kaypro_logo.gif",
    "description": "Despite its name, the Kaypro II was the first Kaypro model. The name was KAYPRO II, because the <a href=\"computer.asp?c=68\">Apple II</a> was the most popular system (besides the <a href=\"computer.asp?c=274\">IBM PC</a>) around back then, and Kaypro decided to follow in the image. \nIt was conceived by Non Linear Systems inc., a company with over 30 years' experience of producing small portable aerospace electronic equipment, which would later become Kaypro. \nThe Kaypro systems were known to be square-built ! All the hardware is packed into a solid aluminum case. These computers can resist to a lot of trouble as they proved when ten of them (Kaypro IV &amp; 10) were used by doctors for the Paris-Dakar 84's edition. Non of them failed despite extreme conditions.\nOne asset of the Kaypro, over the <a href=\"computer.asp?c=181\">Osborne 1</a> which was\navailable at about the same time, is the 9\" built-in monitor, easily twice\nthe size of the Osborne's. Though the Kaypro 2 has no graphic features, it can display 80 x 24 characters. There are two single-sided / double-density full-heigth 5.25'' disk-drives (190k each). One can be used to boot CP/M and the other to run the software.\nThe Kaypro II is a real \"luggable\" system. Even if it weights more than 10kg, it can be easily moved with the handle found at the back.\nAt the rear of the system, one can find a serial port, a parallel port, a keyboard connector, a brightness control knob and reset button.\nPerfect Writer, Perfect Calc, Perfect Filer, Perfect Speller, S-Basic, CP/M and Profitplan were bundled with the system. Later WordStar was also available.\nAs usual with Kaypro, the model names logic is quite dramatic to resolve. Several Kaypro \"2\" were marketed :\n- In 1984 a new <b>Kaypro 2</b> (refered as Kaypro 2'84) is introduced. It has two SS/DD half-height floppy drives, a Z-80A running at 4.0 MHz, 2 serial ports and rudimentary graphics (through graphic characters).\n- The same year, the <b>Kaypro 2X</b> is released. Very similar to a Kaypro 2'84 but with DS/DD half-height drives.\n- Still in 1984, in order to be compatible with IBM software, a special version was marketed with an Intel 8088 CPU instead of the Z80A. It was called the <b>Kaypro II Plus 88</b>!\n- In 1985 another Kaypro 2 refered as <b>\"New 2\"</b> is sold. It is basically an old 2X motherboard, with one or two DS/DD floppy drives, but no 300 baud modem previously found on the 2X. It comes with just CP/M and Wordstar for software.\n- And to spice up a bit things, Kaypro decides to rename its <a href=\"computer.asp?c=548\">Kaypro 4'84</a> as <b>Kaypro 2X</b> (sometimes also known as 2X MTC), thus dropping the previous 2X model!\nSee ! I told you...\nTrivia :\n<font color=\"#666666\">In 1985, <b>Arthur C. Clarke</b> published a sequel to 2001 : 2010 Odyssey Two. He worked with Peter Hyams in the movie version of 2010. Their work was done using a Kaypro computer and a modem, for Arthur was in Sri Lanka and Peter Hyams in Los Angeles. Their communications turned into the book The Odyssey File - The Making of 2010.\n_________\nThanks to <a href=\"http://www.bolo.ch\" target=\"_blank\">Bolo's Computer Museum</a> for the picture.</font>\n<a href=\"doc.asp?c=550\"><img src=\"graphs/readmore.gif\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"4\"></a>",
    "name": "Kaypro II",
    "manufacturer": "Kaypro",
    "type": "Transportable",
    "origin": "U.S.A.",
    "year": "august 1982",
    "built_in_language": "None (M-BASIC and S-BASIC on diskette)",
    "keyboard": "Full-stroke 70 key typewriter style keyboard with 18 programmable keys",
    "cpu": "Z80",
    "speed": "2.5 Mhz",
    "ram": "64 KB",
    "vram": "2 KB",
    "rom": "2 KB",
    "text_modes": "80 chars x 25 lines (character matrix : 5 x 8)",
    "graphic_modes": "None",
    "colors": "built-in 9'' non-glare green phosphor screen",
    "sound": "Beep only",
    "size_weight": "45 x 36 x 21 cm / 13 Kg",
    "io_ports": "RS232c serial port,",
    "built_in_media": "two 5.25'' SS/DD full-height floppies (190k)",
    "os": "CP/M 2.2",
    "power_supply": "Built-in power supply unit",
    "peripherals": "400 KB or 800 KB 5.25'' floppy drives, 10 MB hard disc, battery pack/charger",
    "price": "$1795 (USA, 1982) - ?1259 (U.K., 1983)",
    "photos": [
        {
            "name": "Kaypro label ",
            "image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/Kaypro_II_Label_1.jpg",
            "description": "The kaypro label is painted on the back of the case."
        },
        {
            "name": "Kaypro bag ",
            "image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/Kaypro_II_BlueBag_1.jpg",
            "description": ""
        },
        {
            "name": "MacPro 2X? ",
            "image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/Kaypro_II_MacInside_1.jpg",
            "description": "This is what happens when a Kaypro 2X get married with a Macintosh! This is a Kaypro 2X portable computer case, with the electronic parts of a Macintosh Plus installed in it. It includes an 80 mb hard drive, as well. The keyboard has storage room for the mouse...<p class=\"petitgris\">Thanks to <b>J. Forbes</b> and his <a href=\"http://www.mindspring.com/~jforbes2/\" target=\"_blank\">site</a></p>"
        },
        {
            "name": "Andrew Kay ",
            "image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/Kaypro_II_AndrewKay_1.jpg",
            "description": "Andrew Kay, Non-Linear Systems/Kaypro Corporation's founder, was quite a dynamic character. The son of Eastern European immigrants, he was a graduate of MIT, and a very progressive thinker for his time. He employed four generations of his family at the plant while I worked there, and was a Patriarchal figure to a lot of us employees. I believe that Non-Linear Systems is still in business in San Diego, and his son, David Kay, the former head of sales and marketing for Kaypro, runs a business that makes computerized teaching aides in town. I look back on my experience at Kaypro, the people who worked there, and the people who did business with us, with great affection.<br><br>\r\n<b>Garr Farrell</b>\r\n"
        },
        {
            "name": "Arthur C. Clarke ",
            "image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/SV818_arthur-c-clarke.jpg",
            "description": "Arthur C. Clarke working on his Kaypro II computer. He was the author of \"2001, Space Odyssey\" and its sequel."
        }
    ],
    "adverts": [
        {
            "image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/adverts/Kaypro_II_KaycompAd_1.jpg",
            "name": "NLS advert"
        },
        {
            "image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/adverts/Kaypro_II_KaycompAd_2.jpg",
            "name": "Display size argumen..."
        },
        {
            "image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/adverts/Kaypro_II_KaycompAd_3.jpg",
            "name": "US ad. 1983 #1"
        },
        {
            "image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/adverts/Kaypro_II_KaycompAd_4.jpg",
            "name": "US ad. 1983 #2"
        },
        {
            "image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/adverts/Kaypro_II_KaycompAd_5.jpg",
            "name": "U.S. ad. June 1983"
        },
        {
            "image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/adverts/Kaypro_II_GermanAd_1.jpg",
            "name": "German advert (1983)"
        },
        {
            "image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/adverts/Kaypro_II_KaycompAd_6.jpg",
            "name": "U.K. advert (1983)"
        },
        {
            "image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/adverts/Kaypro_II_UKadvert_s1.jpg",
            "name": "UK advert, Oct. 1983"
        }
    ],
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        {
            "name": "Kaypro II emulator",
            "url": "http://www.yoy.org/kaypro/html/kayproii1.html",
            "platform": "Other platform",
            "description": "Simpla Java emulator."
        },
        {
            "name": "MESS",
            "url": "http://www.mess.org",
            "platform": "Multiplatform",
            "description": "The MESS emulator (multiplatform) can emulate the Kaypro IIx"
        }
    ],
    "links": [
        {
            "url": "computer.asp?st=1&c=831",
            "name": "Kaypro - Kaypro 1"
        },
        {
            "url": "computer.asp?st=1&c=148",
            "name": "Kaypro - Kaypro 10"
        },
        {
            "url": "computer.asp?st=1&c=954",
            "name": "Kaypro - Kaypro 2x"
        },
        {
            "url": "computer.asp?st=1&c=548",
            "name": "Kaypro - Kaypro 4"
        },
        {
            "url": "computer.asp?st=1&c=549",
            "name": "Kaypro - Kaypro IV"
        },
        {
            "url": "computer.asp?st=1&c=278",
            "name": "Kaypro - Robie"
        }
    ]
}