Weighing roughly 5 pounds (2.3 kg) and featuring a battery able to power it for up to eight hours, the RoadRunner was one of the first clamshell notebook computers ever released.

Instead of magnetic disks for fixed and removable storage, the RoadRunner relied on CMOS RAM and ROM cartridges for storing and loading data and software.

[3][a] The display assembly itself is connected to a ratcheting hinge, allowing the user to pivot it at multiple oblique angles without the weight of the housing causing it to fall back entirely.

[7] The laptop has 16 KB of built-in read-only memory, burned onto which is a custom implementation of version 2.2 of the CP/M operating system with added background printing capability; a phone book application; a basic text editor; a VT100-compatible terminal emulator; and a scheduler utility that takes advantage of the computer's real-time clock to alert the user of an event at a set time.

The latter function was complex enough to allow the laptop to "set to wake up at 2:00 a.m. and send the daily sales report back to the computer at the home office".

MicroOffice provided the laptop only to OEMs for rebadging or to large companies for fleet sales at the onset, with the promise of direct-order purchasing later on.

[9] Federal Data Corporation of Chevy Chase, Maryland, purchased a $1 million fleet of RoadRunner laptops and accompanying software cartridges in May 1984.

[19] David H. Ahl of Creative Computing gave the RoadRunner a positive review, calling the "office on the road" moniker that MicroOffice was selling the machine under "apt".

[10] Ahl felt that the bundled applications made it a true "portable office" and, "with a weight of only five pounds and the compact data cartridges, you will be tempted to carry the machine everywhere".

Davies disliked the clear plastic plate protecting the LCD, writing that it contributed to reflections and glare, but appreciated the future replaceability of the display.

"[8] MicroOffice continued marketing the RoadRunner until 1985, when the company was purchased by Telxon Corporation, a handheld computer manufacturer based in Akron, Ohio.

[22] MicroOffice continued operating as a subsidiary of Telxon, switching gears to develop custom software projects and provide data conversion services for medical offices and clinics.

[23] When Telxon was acquired by Symbol Technologies in 2000,[24] MicroOffice was spun-off into a separate company once again and continued operating independently in the healthcare sector,[23] until it was bought again by Medsphere Systems Corporation in 2020.