One of the brightest shooting stars in the early PC industry was an American company founded by a Brit in 1980 to manufacture and market portable computers.
Three years later the company was bankrupt. But, at its peak, the company shipped 10,000 computers in a month at $1795 apiece.
The computer had a 5 inch screen, two floppy disk drives, a Z80 microprocessor and 64K of RAM.
The OS was CP/M, the programming language was BASIC, it had the SuperCalc spreadsheet programme and the WordStar word processing package.
In 1983 the company boss announced a new product. However, it was several months before the new computer was ready to be put on the market and, in that time, the pre-announcement killed off sales of the original computer.
Without any sales revenue, the company went bankrupt.
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