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Peerless 150

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Professional Computer

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1982

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Peerless

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NAME	150

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MANUFACTURER	Peerless

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TYPE	Professional Computer

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ORIGIN	U.S.A.

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YEAR	1982

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BUILT IN LANGUAGE	None

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KEYBOARD	Full stroke keyboard

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CPU	Unknown

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SPEED	Unknown

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CO-PROCESSOR	Unknown

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RAM	Unknown

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TEXT MODES	80 chars x 25 lines

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GRAPHIC MODES	None

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COLORS	Monochrome

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SOUND	Beeper

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SIZE / WEIGHT	Unknown

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I/O PORTS	Unknown

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OS	Jacquard proprietary DOS

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POWER SUPPLY	Built-in power supply unit

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PRICE	$20.000 to $30.000

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ADVERT #1		Advert on the Peerless 150 terminal	null

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linkman (Slovak republic)	Thursday 21st April 2005	Once i see this computer in one of ours antiques :)

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https://web.archive.org/web/20230606200702/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=963	2023-06-06

Peerless was a company that was started by some of the former employees of AM International - 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 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.

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.

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