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Research Machines Nimbus PC-186

Research Machines · 1985

The PC-186 was Research Machines going its own way: an 80186 machine that ran MS-DOS but was not PC compatible, networked for the classroom, and consequently the machine on which a great many British children first used Windows. Ubiquitous in British schools and now surprisingly hard to find.

As catalogued

Maker
Research Machines
CPU
Intel 80186-8
Memory
512K, 1MiB
Styles
PC-186, PC-186 (networked, no disc)
Regions
PAL (UK)
Chassis
wedge with a detachable keyboard
OS
MS-DOS / RM-DOS

Chips

1
CPU
Intel 80186

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