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The 1980s saw the explosion of a worldwide microcomputer industry, and with it came countless bizarre and awesome machines. Let’s take a look at ten of the most unusual devices!

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  1. Went from the PCJR to a Zenith EazyPC, and was lucky enough to get the one with a 20mb hdd AND the 128kb expander module for a whopping 640kb.
    Learned to program on that thing.. when I was 7.

  3. I'm from Poland and I'm very surprised that you mentioned Elwro. They were manufactured by goverment's factory near Wrocław. Established in 1959 and closed in 1993. Maybe you could do an episode about computers from behind the iron curtain. i would see it.

  6. If you want to know anything about the Unisys Icon I, II and III let me know. I worked with these in primary and secondary school. They were quite funny beasts made by a bungling political mistake.

  9. ELWRO 800 – I have used it in my primary school in 90s. It even had a network where you connected computers in chains with one server (it was called Junet IIRC). It had ability to send messages from basic by specyfing destination node id. If you used 255 then it broadcasted to all. And if you sent a message to 255 in loop it would froze all computer. It als had an ability to run CP/M. I have fond memories of that.

  13. I had a micro writer connected to a speech synthesiser and Citizen 120 D printer. It was supplied to blind and partially sighted people in the UK mid 1980s by the Royal National Institute for the Blind though it was necessary to buy the printer itself. It was surprisingly useful and I produced quite a lot of letters, reports etc on it but i was quite pleased to get hold of my first “proper” computer with a keyboard – an Amstrad CPC 6128 which was many times faster to use. Anyway, thanks for reminding me of the Microwriter.

  14. I worked in Garden Grove CA at a PC shop 1990-91. I repaired a lot of computers, most of which were IBM PC's and PC clones and Apple Mac's. Also repaired quite a few Commodore 64's. But the PCJR is the only one of these computers I ever saw.

  15. The Microwriter was an idea so massively ahead of it's time that it's time still hasn't came, it has a very steep learning curve but once learnt it can be as fast typing, it's an ideal solution for smart phones especially if you are male and have sausage fingers, you'd think some mobile manufacturer would have looked at maybe putting a Microwriter style keyboard (it's called chording keyboard BTW) on the back of a mobile.

  29. I just found this, and have to say, I've used the Ontario Ministry of Education's "ICON 2" computer… I don't remember much about it, because we students preferred the C64 and CPet over the Icon2.

  30. I remember the 80s fondly
    I remember one program i had to use it
    it had to load form scratch each time you used it
    It took about 1 hour to load
    My computer could not do anything else when loading and running it
    If you shut the computer off you had to load from scratch
    I don't think i would like to go back to those days
    It was all new and it was fun
    In those days i could not dream about the tablet I'm typing on today
    No two ways about it
    Things are better now

  33. wow! I feel proud as a Pakistani now.
    1. because we invented the first computer virus
    2. while world was building these toys, Pakistan had the nuke in 1982. now I understand what a big deal it was.
    we eventually got the latest computers anyways. its good that we did not wasted money on these toys back in 80s.

  34. Автор по последнему польскому компьютеру немного не прав, у нас говорят – притянуто за уши…
    Думаю он не собран из пианино, а формфактор с подставкой под инструкцию и специальную литературу
    Он же был учебный, очевидно же для детей, ставить учебник и по нему набивать программу…

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