Forgotten PC History

[Chuck Guzis]

On 8 Aug 2008 at 12:03, Jim Brain wrote:

> I don't mean to repost, but I had not seen this posted as yet:
> 
> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9111341&source=NLT_AM&nlid=1

Doesn't the "home computer" (not the Honeywell "kitchen computer") go 
back at least as far as 1968?  Wasn't there an outfit that marketed a 
box with two tape drives and a display in it for home use?  Not a 
computer, per se, but an information storage and retrieval device.  A 
name like "Viacon"?  My brain has too many dustbunnies to remember 
much more, but I recall reading about it a long time ago.

Perhaps one of the digital archaeologists on the list remembers.

Cheers,
Chuck