Named for NLS founder (and digital voltmeter inventor) Andrew Kay, the Kaypro II–and its series of successors over the ensuing years, including the 4 and the 2x–was a moderately priced alternative. Even more than the Osborne (which had pioneered the concept of the luggable microcomputer), it appealed to a growing group of nongeeks who were awakening to the productivity benefits of personal computers but couldn’t afford (or didn’t want to spend) several thousand dollars for an Apple or IBM PC along with the necessary software and peripherals (such as a printer). Photograph: Courtesy of Non-Linear Systems’ Kaypro II didn’t break new ground when it appeared toward the end of 1982, but it was a classic case of the right product at the right time.
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