The Turing-850 Project: Developing a Personal Computer in the Early 1980s in Mexico

Daniel Ortíz-Arroyo, Francisco Rodríguez‐Henríquez, Carlos A. Coello Coello · IEEE Annals of the History of Computing · 2010

In response to the increasing popularity in the late 1970s of affordable, general-purpose, microprocessor-based personal computers in the US, several countries attempted to create indigenous personal computer industries. The Turing-850, a general-purpose PC designed and built in Mexico in the early 1980s, shows that Mexico had the technological capabilities to develop its own such industry, but diverse factors prevented its creation.

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