| Year |
Model |
Notes |
| Late 1982 |
Kaypro II
(a.k.a. Kaypro II ’83) |
2 SS/DD full-height
floppies
2.5 MHz Z-80
1 serial port
Bundled software from Perfect
Software. |
| Middle 1983 |
Original Kaypro 10 |
1 DS/DD floppy drive
10 meg HD
4.0 MHz Z-80A CPU
2 serial ports
light pen port
Rudimentary graphics
Real time clock (Absent on all or some models)
Software from Perfect Software
dBase II |
| Middle 1983 |
Kaypro IV
(a.k.a. Kaypro IV '83) |
Same as Kaypro II
but…
With DS/DD full-height floppy drives
WordStar started being included in addition to the Perfect
Software suite.
The same was true for the Kaypro II'83
Later versions included WordStar as well
|
| Early 1984 |
Kaypro 4
(a.k.a. Kaypro 4 '84) |
2 DS/DD half-height
floppy drives
4.0 MHz Z-80A CPU
2 serial ports,
Internal 300 baud modem
Real-time clock
Rudimentary graphics.
Software from Micropro (WordStar,
CalcStar, etc.) |
| Late 1984 |
Kaypro 2
(a.k.a. Kaypro 2 '83) |
2 SS/DD half-height
floppy drives,
4.0 MHz Z-80A
2 serial ports
Rudimentary graphics.
Software was from Micropro (WordStar, CalcStar, etc.) |
| Early 1984 |
Kaypro 2X |
Similar to older Kaypro
IV, or Kaypro 2
2 DS/DD half-height drives
4.0 MHz Z-80A
2 serial ports
Rudimentary graphics
Software from Micropro (WordStar, CalcStar, etc.) |
| Late 1984? |
Kaypro Robie |
The first non-portable
Kaypro machine
Black desktop
2 2.6 Megabyte floppy drives
Motherboard is basically the same as a Kaypro 4
300 baud modem
Rudimentary graphics
Robies were not big sellers |
| 1985 |
All models |
Kaypro upgrades most of
the machines to the "Universal ROM"
Boot disk are now
interchangeable |
| 1985 |
Kaypro 2X |
The Kaypro 4 '84 is
renamed the Kaypro 2X (sometimes known as 2X MTC).
Kaypro 2X, Kaypro 2 '84, and Kaypro 4'84 are dropped |
| Early 1985? |
The "New" Kaypro 2 |
The "New 2" is introduced
Basically an old 2X motherboard
1 DS/DD floppy drive
Comes with only CP/M and WordStar for software |
| Early 1985 |
Kaypro II' 83 |
Kaypro starts producing
the Kaypro II' 83 again
Comes with Perfect software (as opposed to Micropro
software) |
| 1985 |
Kaypro 4X
Kaypro 12X |
Kaypro 4X is a Robie but
in a standard portable case
Kaypro 12X is a Kaypro 10 but with a Robie floppy drive
(4X or a 12X may never have been produced) |
| 1986 |
Kaypro 1 |
Equivalent to the old
Kaypro 2X
2 DS/DD floppies
4.0 MHz Z-80A
2 serial ports, etc.
Floppies are vertical as opposed to
horizontal
Came with CP/M and Perfect Writer for software |
| 1986 |
Kaypro 1, Kaypro 2X MTC,
Kaypro 10, Robie |
After this. Kaypro
produced just the 1, 2X MTC, 10 and
Robie
This continued until they got out of the CP/M
machines
|
| Ongoing evolution |
Variations |
After this, there were a
few variations on some machines
One variation was the Kaypro
4+88, which had a SWP (?) co-processor board with an 8088, 256K of
memory (which could be configured as a RAM disk under CP/M), and
could run some MSDOS software.
|
| Unknown |
Kaypro V |
The Kaypro V was rumored
to exist.
It was supposed to be a precursor to the Kaypro 10, but with a 5
Meg HD and a single-sided
floppy |
