The Husky 144's CPU is a National Semiconductor NSC-800, compatible with the Z80, and the computer has built-in Basic, 32K non-volatile RAM, and 16K ROM.

[6] It was initially manufactured in response to a request from Severn Trent and was later used by the Ministry of Defence in the Rapier Missile project.

[2] Husky Computers was acquired by the American company WPI Inc. of Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1997 for US$21 million.

[7] This division continued manufacturing and marketing succeeding models of Husky portable computers until 2000, when they were acquired by Itronix.

The writer reported that the Hunter "makes every other computer that I've handled feel quite flimsy", and concluded that "not everyone needs one, but if you do, you really need one".