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The precursor to the Toy aisle console, educational computers date all the way back to the 1960s but didn't became a new market until the early 80s, simplified systems designed to be educational and ease of use | The precursor to the Toy aisle console, educational computers date all the way back to the 1960s but didn't became a new market until the early 80s, when simplified systems designed to be educational and ease of use became popular, these computers started to died out in the late 1990s, when the [https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Strange_and_forgotten_consoles#Toy_aisle_consoles Toy Aisle Consoles] started to appeal to parents looking for something similar to the more mainstream systems but with a bigger focus on safe, usually educational content. by the early 2000s, these kind of consoles had almost completely taken over the market these computers once controlled. | ||
NOTE - Not all educational computers belong here, a large majority of them are clones or re-skins not noteworthy enough to be added | NOTE - Not all educational computers belong here, a large majority of them are clones or re-skins not noteworthy enough to be added | ||
=School Computers= | |||
Computers Designed to be used in schools, these system are usually not sold to the general public. | |||
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{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:Left;" | |||
|+ style="background: #ECECEC;"| | |||
! scope="col"|Model | |||
! scope="col"|Year | |||
! scope="col"|Developer / Distributor | |||
! scope="col"|[[MAME]] support | |||
! scope="col"|ROMs | |||
! scope="col"|Description | |||
|- id="A" | |||
| colspan="5" style="background: #ECECEC;"| '''A''' <small>{{IndexComp}}</small> | |||
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|ABACUS Educational Computer | |||
|1971 | |||
|Feedback | |||
|style="background:gainsboro;"|None | |||
|No | |||
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|- id="I" | |||
| colspan="5" style="background: #ECECEC;"| '''I''' <small>{{IndexComp}}</small> | |||
|- | |||
|Icon | |||
|1983 | |||
|Unisys | |||
| style="background: Gainsboro;"| None | |||
|No | |||
|[https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=971 Old Computers] | |||
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|- id="M" | |||
| colspan="5" style="background: #ECECEC;"| '''M''' <small>{{IndexComp}}</small> | |||
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|MS-0511 (UKNC) | |||
|1987 | |||
|Elektronika | |||
| style="background: Red;"| Preliminary | |||
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|[https://code.google.com/archive/p/ukncbtl UKNC Back to Life!] | |||
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=Educational computers= | |||
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[[Category:Computers]] | [[Category:Computers]] | ||