The Compaq Portable was an excellent engineering effort that established Compaq as a major player. The build is a sight to behold with its beautiful alodined aluminium panels.
The video display is monochrome CGA, but the text mode is of the same quality as IBM MDA. Nice work.
This one was a FB marketplace purchase in Adelaide. The seller said that a neighbour had given it to him when he was a kid in the late eighties.
The existing multifunction card had been badly damaged by battery leakage, so it has been replaced with another (thank you, Andrew). I added another multifunction card for some more I/O, including a gameport, and an Etherlink II network port so it can hop on my network.
The keyboard needed to be refoamed. I made the pads myself from some 5mm foam, a first aid blanket, and a leather punch. The foam i used was probably a little to dense, so they need a good tap. Quite usable though.