School Computers
These were aimed at the class room, not the living room. Some types were popular in the centrally planned economies of eastern Europe where Western computers were scarce, or in the early days of computer education in Western schools. Popular home computers of the period were fitted with various types of network interfaces to allow sharing of files, large disk drives, and printers, and often allowed a teacher to interact with a student, supervise the system usage, and carry out administrative tasks from a host computer.
- Acorn Archimedes (and derivatives)
- BBC Micro
- Commodore SuperPET/SP9000
- IQ 151
- Research Machines 380Z Industrial and school systems
- LINK 480Z
- Regency Systems R2C
- Tiki 100
- TIM-011
- Unisys ICON
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