Missing computer company's

[BravoXray]

Bad chiclet keyboard is one of the reasons the IBM PC jr was not a commercial success.
incredibly bad keyboard, never knew by feel if a key was pressed.
Brought to you by the company that made the best typewriters.

The broker I worked for in the 80s had an IBM Selectric with a parallel interface to connect to a PC. We used it to print form letters and other correspondence rather than print it on a dot matrix printer, looked more professional. The changeable balls with different typefaces was nice too. It was crazy how fast that ball could print.

 

[hoozie]

This guy collects old CPUs, and writes quite a bit about the history of old processors/systems. Some pretty neat stuff.

The CPU Shack - History of Microprocessors & CPU Tech

A museum for the history of processors and CPUs and how they have changed our world. Includes Intel, AMD as well as lesser known companies such as Signetics.

www.cpushack.com

 

[Quaffer]

TeleVideo
Blue Chip
Tandem
Pertec
Control Data (CDC)
O'Dell
Altair
Atari

I still have a Commodore 64 with the game Archon. I should see if it still works!