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title	categories	types	origins	years	cpus	params
Televideo Personal Mini PM/4T	Computers	Professional Computer	U.S.A.	1984	Zilog Z80A	name company company_name specs tabs adverts comments oc_id source Personal Mini PM/4T /companies/televideo Televideo label value NAME Personal Mini PM/4T label value MANUFACTURER Televideo label value TYPE Professional Computer label value ORIGIN U.S.A. label value YEAR 1984 label value KEYBOARD Unknown label value CPU Zilog Z80A + Intel 80186 label value CO-PROCESSOR N/A label value RAM 1024 KB (some systems may have more or less memory) label value VRAM N/A label value ROM Unknown label value TEXT MODES Unknown label value GRAPHIC MODES Unknown label value COLORS Unknown label value SOUND Unknown label value SIZE / WEIGHT Unknown label value I/O PORTS RS 232C (Two) - RS 422 (Serial port - Four) - Centronics label value BUILT IN MEDIA 5.25'' disk-drive label value OS InfoShare OS (OEM version of Netware) label value POWER SUPPLY Built-in PSU label value PRICE $6000 adverts title subtitle text image US AD. JUNE 1983 This advert puts forward network capabilities of Televideo systems. ... If you want a personal computer that gives you professional performances, it's obvious that you have a lot of choices for today.\ But there's only one with choices for tomorrow. Televideo ... null title subtitle text image US AD. AUGUST 1985 null author date text dop hegger (Netherlands) Thursday 29th May 2014 The TeleVideo PM4 was one of the first dedicated fileservers. It could serve up to 4 IBM (compatible) Pc''s.\ As a server running infoshare (indeed the earliest version of Novell) is could handle record and file locking. I know because, as technical support manager at that time, I introduced this system in Middle and Northern Europe. have a nice day author date text Stuart (Montreal) Sunday 1st January 2006 Came across this site- great. Sold over $10MM of Televideo-INFOSHARE (aka NOVELL) in Canada- few believe me when I tell them that infoshare 1.0 was the original NOVELL! Also sold 1,000 ALTOS Xenix/Unix CPU's a few years later- another great system!(from Dave Jackson-ex Dec) good luck! Stu author date text Chris (New Jersey) Wednesday 20th July 2005 I recently picked up a pm/16t I believe. Haven't tested it yet, came with a few disks. Hope I'll be able to image them properly. E-mail me if you have one or whatever. Better yet join the yahoo group. author date text David Bellamy (Pecker world) Saturday 5th April 2003 I own a large ball of wasps. 411 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230603105710/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=411 2023-06-03

The Mini PM/4T was the multi-user version of the Televideo PC compatible. A video terminal was used for interfacing directly to the system.

The InfoShare Operating System can run many multi-user programs or execute most single-user MS-DOS programs.

The PM/4T can be linked to up to four computers (PCs or Televideo's PM Workstation [a terminal]).

It was sold for $6000, and a 16-user version was available at $9000.
A $99 card was required to connect each PC to the system.

Igor Pronin reports :
I was one of the first users in Finland. Infoshare Operating System was actually Novell Netware. In the begining it was version 1 or 1.1 but it was soon upgraded to 1.2. As a server running programs off the server, it was faster than from a local hard disk of a 12 MHz AT.