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+---
+title: Peerless 150
+categories:
+- Computers
+types:
+- Professional Computer
+origins:
+- U.S.A.
+years:
+- '1982'
+params:
+  name: '150'
+  company: /companies/peerless
+  company_name: Peerless
+  specs:
+  - label: NAME
+    value: '150'
+  - label: MANUFACTURER
+    value: Peerless
+  - label: TYPE
+    value: Professional Computer
+  - label: ORIGIN
+    value: U.S.A.
+  - label: YEAR
+    value: '1982'
+  - label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE
+    value: None
+  - label: KEYBOARD
+    value: Full stroke keyboard
+  - label: CPU
+    value: Unknown
+  - label: SPEED
+    value: Unknown
+  - label: CO-PROCESSOR
+    value: Unknown
+  - label: RAM
+    value: Unknown
+  - label: TEXT MODES
+    value: 80 chars x 25 lines
+  - label: GRAPHIC MODES
+    value: None
+  - label: COLORS
+    value: Monochrome
+  - label: SOUND
+    value: Beeper
+  - label: SIZE / WEIGHT
+    value: Unknown
+  - label: I/O PORTS
+    value: Unknown
+  - label: OS
+    value: Jacquard proprietary DOS
+  - label: POWER SUPPLY
+    value: Built-in power supply unit
+  - label: PRICE
+    value: $20.000 to $30.000
+  tabs:
+  - adverts
+  adverts:
+  - title: 'ADVERT #1'
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: Advert on the Peerless 150 terminal
+    image: null
+  - title: 'ADVERT #2'
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  comments:
+  - author: linkman (Slovak republic)
+    date: Thursday 21st April 2005
+    text: Once i see this computer in one of ours antiques :)
+  oc_id: 963
+  source:
+    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230606200702/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=963
+    date: '2023-06-06'
+---
+
+Peerless was a company that was started by some of the former employees of [AM International](/museum/am-international-jacquard-systems-j100-j500/) - Jacquard.
+
+Peerless built a computer and 4 terminal control boards that would run Jacquard's OS. The computer was compact very much like the pc towers that we have now.
+
+This very good system ran all the software that were written for the Jacquard, but it was very pricey, 20-30 thousand dollars just for the base unit...
+
+That was about the time [IBM PC](/museum/ibm-pc-model-5150/) came out , the PC doomed the Peerless and the Jacquard systems. Peerless did come out with a board that allowed a PC to run as a Peerless Jacquard terminal over Arcnet network.
+
+NASA bought a lot of these peerless systems to replace the numerous Jacquard systems that they had, mainly for word processing.
+
+The peerless was a good replacement for the Jacquard system but by the time it was coming out when the market was moving to the IBM PC.
+
+Thanks to **Randy Larson** for information and pictures.
+
+<table> <tr> <td></td> <td>We need more info about this computer ! If you designed, used, or have more info about this system, please send us pictures or anything you might find useful.</td> <td></td> </tr> </table>