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Aircraft Navigation Computer

The Heathkit Model OC-1401 is a compact handheld electronic digital computer. It was designed for aircraft pilots and provides basic math, special navigation, flight management and scientific funct...

Avon Beauty Vision Personal Color Computer

The Avon Beauty Vision Personal Color Computer is an altered Toshiba T1000 portable computer that was specifically designed for Avon. The computer was used by Avon salespersons to read a customer's...

Compukit 1

Although it is a training device, the Compukit 1 may qualify as one of the earliest personal computers ever offered to the public. It pre-dates contenders such as the Kenbak-1 and the NRI 832 by se...

Compukit 1 Deluxe Model

Like the Standard Model Compukit 1, the Deluxe Model is one of the earliest personal computers sold to the public. Based on our research, only the Comspace 650 is older.

The Deluxe Mode...

Computer Trainer Model 650

Developed by Irving Becker, who died December 2005, the CT-650 was one of the earliest digital personal computers. The CT-650 is likely one of the earliest digital personal computers ever made. One ...

CTI Transistor Characteristics

Apart of the CTI Transistor Characteristics are three Transistor Characteristics boards and four Circuit Patching Units. These were made by CTI Educational Products Inc.

Dynalogic Hyperion Computer

Was luggable computer with unique design.

Created by the Canadian firm Dynalogic and was first introduced on the Spring COMDEX trade show in 1982 at Atlantic city.

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Horse Race Analyzer

The box this analyzer comes in says, "the Thoroughbred HORSE RACE ANALYZER is programmed for 3 year-or-older horses running on a fast dirt or firm turf track, at distances of 6 furlongs¹...

HP 2115A

The 2115A was introduced to take advantage of the success of the HP2116A which had been offered to the public a year earlier in 1966. According to Jon Johnston who runs the HP Computer Museum in Aust...

Informer 207

The Informer 207 is a portable computer that was released in 1987 by Informer at a price of $1,390, which would be $3,092 today. It has an RS-232C Interface and Baud Rates of 4800. The 207 has a scree...

Kitchen Computer

The "Kitchen Computer" is a unique oddity in the history of computing. The famed Neiman-Marcus Christmas catalog made it a practice to offer eye-catching (and wallet-busting) presents that were ex...

Lehrcomputer

In late 1977 or early 1978, Christiani Technical Institute for Vocational Training, publishers of educational material, offered a kit computer that they called the "Lehrcomputer" (in English, "teachin...

MicroAce Microcomputer

A couple months after Sinclair released its microcomputer the ZX-80, MicroAce released its version which is basically a clone of the ZX-80. The minor modification made to the MicroAce was the expan...

NewBrain

The Grundy NewBrain was a microcomputer sold in the early 1980s by Grundy Business Systems Ltd. of Teddington and Cambridge, England. This microcomputer's emphasis was on education, portable comput...

OSI Model 300 Computer Trainer

The first sentence in the manual that came with this unit should give you some insight into what was considered a computer in 1975.

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QDP-100

This rare computer offered two horizontally mounted 8" drives. There is not much information on this computer. It ran on a Z-80 CPU and was sold with a C/PM 2.2 disk operating system. It is heav...

RCA Cosmac 1800 Microtutor

The RCA 1800 Microtutor was used to educate engineers and others on how to program microprocessors. Manufactured in 1976, the unit is fully self-contained with the exception of the 9-volt power con...

Seiko UC-2200

The UM01-0020 is a controller developed for Seiko’s early wearable computers, like the UC-2200. It features a compact keyboard, allowing users to input data and expand the device’s functionalit...

Sphere 1

The Sphere 1 was called the "the first 'true' personal computer" by Byte Magazine¹ because it included the computing hardware, a keyboard with a number pad and a built-in monitor. Thing...

TEI MCS 112

According to a TEI Special Systems Group brochure dated 1978, this MCS 112 is one of their "Mainframe" computers as opposed to their "Terminal Systems" (MTS xxx) or their "Processor Termi...

Tektronix Apple II

This is a very rare Apple II clone, supposedly made by Tektronix. However, the only item inside with a Tektronix branding is the power supply. Apple II clones were popular from 1980 to 1983, and the...

TI Insight Series 10

This is the TI Insight series 10 which is a computer terminal that was developed by Texas Instruments in the early 1980's. The main reason for its deign was used for in business and education envir...

Vector Graphic 3 (VIP)

The Vector Graphics VIP, or Vector 3 is inspired by the Vector 3 terminal which held a normal keyboard of 72 keys and a built in 12" video screen. The VIP held up to 6 S-100 bus boards and came wi...

YPC-1000 Basic-alpha

Interesting computer made in Japan but there is very little information on it. It was built by Yamazaki Educational Equipment Company, LTD. This 8-bit microcomputer was known as the Basic· ...