A Collector's Guide to Personal Computers and Pocket Calculators |
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5.25-inch floppy disk 5.25-inch floppy drive 64 characters 8-inch floppy drives 80 characters advertised Altair Apple Apple II ASCII assembled built-in bytes calculator Capacity cassette interface characters per line Commodore Commodore PET cont Cost CP/M Cromemco Daisywheel Data storage device Digital displaying 24 lines Dot matrix electronic expandable to 64 expansion slots floppy disk drive function keys hard drive Hewlett-Packard Intel keyboard with numeric lines of 80 machine ran memory microcomputer microprocessor Motorola MS-DOS numeric keypad Ohio Scientific Ohio Scientific Instruments Operator input optional OSI Ohio Scientific paper tape parallel interface parallel port Physical pixels portable pounds printer Processor production by 1984 production by April production by January production by July production by March production by October production by September running serial interface serial ports sold Speed standard SWTPC terminal Type Value weighed WordStar Zenith Data Systems Zilog