Commentator Andrei Codrescu remembers the first word processor he had — the Kaypro II in the 1980s. Its inventor, Andrew Kay, died Aug. 28, at the age of 95. The Kaypro II weighed in at a mere 26 ...

In 1983, I was a an academically struggling high school freshman. My Dad, a professor, brought home a Kaypro computer. It weighed 24 pounds, had a 9 inch internal green screen monitor, and two disc ...

Andrew Kay, an early San Diego technology entrepreneur who founded Kaypro Corp. computers in the early 1980s, died last week in North County. He was 95. A relentlessly curious learner and inventor, ...

Andrew Kay, whose Solana Beach-based company developed the popular Kaypro II in the early days of personal computers, died last week in Vista at the age of 95. His company, Non-Linear Systems Inc., ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Kaypro was a manufacturer of portable ...

These days, a good proxy for hacking prowess is getting Doom playable on the oldest piece of hardware imaginable. While we respect and applaud these efforts, perhaps the bar should be set a bit higher ...

I just read that Andrew Kay passed away at the age of 95. I never knew who he was, but the machine that his company made had a profound influence on tax and accounting practice, at least in my neck of ...

This beautiful instrument of musical delight is called the Zenotron, and it was built by [Mike Walters] for his friend [Zeno] in exchange for some keyboards. The Zenotron is the latest musical hack in ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Kaypro 2000 was the company’s ...

Kaypro Corp., which makes many popular CP/M-based machines (especially great for writers), has introduced four new MS-DOS computers in the last six months. The company has taken an aggressive leap ...

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Commentator Andrei Codrescu remembers the first word processor he had — the Kaypro II in the 1980s. Its inventor, Andrew Kay, died Aug. 28, at the age of 95. The Kaypro II weighed in at a mere 26 ...