You wouldn’t necessarily call the HP-85 a portable computer, but the 20-pound case was definitely a huge step towards the laptops that HP sells today – and a sign of the easy upgradability you expect in desktop PCs today.These machines had modest performance, but considering it was 1980, people were more than willing to buy one for about $3,200.
    从现在的标准来看，你一定不会把HP-85当做便携式电脑，但20磅的重量使惠普向今天的笔记本电脑迈出了一大步，并且它拥有如现在所有PC一样的轻松的升级能力。在1980年，人们非常愿意花3200美元买一台带回家。
 
    Here are a couple snippets from some of the original marketing materials:
“Leave it to Hewlett-Packard to put a lot of power in a little package. Plus flexibility, portability, and all the other features you’d expect to find in a personal, professional, integrated computer system.”
    这里有来自原来市场宣传材料的一段描述：“惠普把很多功能放进一个小盒子里，加上灵活性、便携性、使之成为一台个人专业集成计算机系统。”
 
   “Integrated Graphics: Analyze a better way – with graphics. Document your results with hard-copy plots.”
   “集成显卡：用显卡分析出一个更好的方式。用硬拷贝图表存档你的结果。”
 
   “Portability: Keyboard, CRT, printer and storage – all in a 20-pound package. So you’ll have computing power wherever you need it…office, lab, field, or home.”
   “便携性：键盘、CRT、打印机和存储——所有这些都在一个20磅的盒子里。因此，你可以在任何地方获得你所需的计算能力：办公室、实验室、野外或家里。”
 
   “Expandability: Just plug in the HP interface bus (HP-IB) and add up to 14 peripherals without disassembly.”
   “扩展性：只需插入HP接口总线（HP-IB），就可以连接最多14个外设而无需进行组装。”
 
    As you may have guessed from the picture, the HP-85 personal computer was a totally self-contained, portable system for both technical professionals or the beginning small-computer user. The HP-85 was based on an 8-bit microprocessor and combined an alphanumeric keyboard, CRT screen, thermal printer tape drive unit, user read/write memory and a ROM operating system in one portable package. It had 32K ROM and 16K RAM.
    你可以从照片上猜出，HP-85个人电脑上一个完全独立的便携式系统，适用于专业技术人士和刚起步的小型计算机用户。HP-85基于一个8位处理器，在一个便携式的盒子里包括了一个字母数字键盘，CRT显示器，热敏打印机磁带驱动器设备，用户读/写内存和一个ROM操作系统。他有32K ROM和16K RAM。

    In short, it was “Designed for Today and Tomorrow….whether you’re in science, engineering, industry or business.” The idea of an upgradable machine was a big selling point back then.
    简而言之，它是“为今天和明天而设计……无论你是在科学界、工程界、产业界还是商界。””一台可升级的机器”在当时是一个大卖点。
 
    What else happened in 1980? There were a number of advances – though you might not think some of them as life-changing – in 1980. I know a number of people who spent entire allowances on Pac-Man. In 1980, Pac-Man (a.k.a. Pakkuman in Japan) first gobbled pellets. Rubik’s Cube is first sold as a brain-bending toy.
    1980年还发生了什么？在1980年有一些进步，虽然你不认为其中的一些可以改变生活。我知道有一些人把所有的零花钱都花在“吃豆子（Pac-Man）”上了。1980年，Pac-Man（在日本又叫做Pakkuman）吃下了第一颗豆子。Rubik的魔方被作为智力玩具销售。