Compy 386

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The Compy (or at least an old computer monitor) appearing in puppet form in Puppet Time

The Compy appearing in Powered by the Cheat form in mile, under the name "Compa"

This does not look good for the Compy 386. From virus

The Compy 386 is Strong Bad's current computer, and in his words, "a spectacle of graphics and sound". This replaced the Tandy 400 after it exploded in "gimmicks". It also seems to have something against The Cheat.

In the recent Strong Bad email virus, Compy 386 suffered from serious technical problems, and because of this, Bubs destroyed it with a shotgun which can mean one thing...a new computer!

Debut: invisibility

Fun Facts

• The Compy 386 seems to be a take on the old Compaq Deskpro 386, which has a similar monitor and keyboard.
• You can click on the little wheel to change the screen contrast from black to blue.
• The blue '386' display when Strong Bad turns on the Compy 386 in invisiblity refers to the blue IBM logo.
• The monitor in the Puppet Time movie is an old Apple II monitor. The keyboard is a recent model of the Dell Quiet Key Keyboard that came with earlier Dell computers.

The Real Computer

Like the Tandy 400, this was an almost-reference to a real computer. There was a 386 processor, which was very popular in it's day, but there was no company called "Compy" that made a 386 version of their computer. The "386" logo in "invisibility" looks like the real-life logo of IBM. He seems to be using a DOS, but in "big white face" we see him emulating the old MacOS. This can lead to a huge amount of theories, that serve no useful purpose to be debated here.