---
title: Peerless 150
categories:
- Computers
types:
- Professional Computer
origins:
- U.S.A.
years:
- '1982'
params:
  name: '150'
  image: /media/museum/photos/peerless_system_1.jpg
  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: /media/museum/pubs/peerless_pub_2.jpg
  - title: 'ADVERT #2'
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/pubs/peerless_pub_1.jpg
  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>