Rare IBM Schools Computer 1969
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The power of this computer seems roughly comparable to the Olivetti Programma desktop computer, which was produced at about the same time and was commercially available -- and of course the packaging was much slicker. It has been mentioned on HN many times:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
This post links to the Programma 101's architecture and internals, which you can compare to the article linked in the original post.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38173224