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From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.arch
Subject: Re: History of PCs
Keywords: history, pc, workstation
Message-ID: <17589@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 28 Jul 88 17:25:13 GMT
References: <5946@venera.isi.edu> <5458@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> <1876@looking.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle)
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In article <1876@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
>and a bit before the TRS-80.  It was really the first serious
>all in one box personal computer, that you could plug in, turn on and use.

      Some earlier "all in one box" personal computers:

	The IBM 8100, a strange semi-portable personal computer circa
	the late 1970s.  A switch on the front panel selected either 
	BASIC or APL.

	The Viatron Computer, circa 1970.  It was supposed to rent for
	$39 a month.  It really existed, but very few were ever made,
	despite great hype from the manufacturer.

	Various machines based on the DEC LSI-11 chipset appeared in the late
	1970s, including the Terak, a nicely packaged machine with 64K of RAM.

					John Nagle