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HP had a similar device...

...called the Integral PC, a fully contained HP-UX box that was sold by the thousands to insurance companies. It had a built in printer and modem, and one customer I know of included a phone in the bag so that the user would connect the phone to the Integral PC and the computer to a phone jack. I believe they used the phone to dial into a central computer centre and once they had authenticated verbally with a human at the other end they would then be able to transfer data (or the guy may have been pulling my leg, I never knew for sure). This was around 1992, and they where pretty old by then (at least 5 or 6 years old) and the customer wanted us to help them find a replacement. Unfortunately there wasn't anything that was a direct replacement and the customer was pretty frustrated. They had over 5000 of them.
On a similar topic, despite NEC being generally referred to as the inventor of the laptop in 1987, HP had a "laptop" MS-DOS machine as far back as late 1983 called the HP Portable 110. I had a Portable Plus which I got around 1988 and it was still in use by my sister's family a couple of years ago.

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