Applied Technology, Australia

Australia

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 founded by Owen Hill in 1975, was a pioneer producer of home computers that ran CP/M

CP/M

CP/M was a mass-market operating system created for Intel 8080/85 based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc...

 on Zilog

Zilog

Zilog, Inc., previously known as ZiLOG , is a manufacturer of 8-bit and 24-bit microcontrollers, and is most famous for its Intel 8080-compatible Z80 series.-History:...

 Z80 microprocessor

Microprocessor

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s. Their MicroBee

MicroBee

MicroBee was a series of home computers by Applied Technology, later known as MicroBee Systems.The original MicroBee computer was designed in Australia by a team including Owen Hill and Matthew Starr...

 computer (1982) was the first commercial personal computer

Personal computer

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 manufactured in Australia.

It was also later known as Microbee Systems, Microworld and Honeysoft.

Some models of mid 1980s are Applied Technology S100, Micro Bee 32IC, Micro Bee 128K, "Computer in a Book".