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There's something about a black case.There's something about a black case.

A three-piece desktop computer. Up top is a black CRT, with a single red power button. The pizzabox style case features two 3.25" drives, a recessed red power switch, and an unlabeled future expansion port. The front of the case seems to slide off entirely, which would allow the top to hinge up and off, like their competitor Apple. The keyboard, itself, is black in the familiar IBM layout, with one addition: a raised ridge, where a student might rest a pencil.
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Get ready for the hottest Atari deals of '91! (Source.)

The front cover for a mail order catalog, the E. Arthur Brown Company's "Compu-Nutz Computer Enthusiast Catalog." The table of contents promises computers & memory upgrades, drives, "special purchase opportunities", writing & publishing software, "games, diversion, and knowledge", productivity, toner cartridge replacement, and ordering information. Below the header is listed the Atari Hypercard, an image scanner (showing a black-and-white reproduction of a famous photo of King Tutankhamen's sarcophagus), the Cinemaware Library, an 'un-beatable hard drive', GramSlam grammar check, PageStream Tutor, a removable cartridge drive ("includes 44 Meg Cartridge"), Spectrum 512, a Supramodem (pictured in box), a hand scanner, Mavis Beacon Typing ('Special Low Price'), the Mega STE-16 (pictured, a computer in a squat pizzabox case), Hard Drive Back-Up to Video Tape (pictured as a converter box), and Mah-Jong Solitaire. Man this took so many tries to fit into 1000 characters.
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Nnanoraptor.danamania.com

Power Computer 66Mhz.

A photo of a generic pizzabox beige pc case with an AppleTek logo in a square in the case, domed with clear plastic resin and slightly off to the side. It's branded "Power Computer 66Mhz" in a fat plain almost-garamond, with a chrome LED bezel sticking out. In the front centre not matching the colour is a slightly offset CD burner, and to the right is a 3.5" floppy bay with some text that doesn't match the other text simply stating "POWER PC". On the front of this computer alone are at least 6 different fonts, three plastic colours and an insult to humanity.
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CLOSE UP: The Commodore 128DCLOSE UP: The Commodore 128D

A review from the April 1988 Up top, the aforementioned article title, and a picture of the machine itself; the grey machine doesn't look too dissimilar from modern pizzabox computers, with a 5.25" disk drive where a modern pizzabox would have a CD drive, and a detached clickey keyboard that's not too far from IBM standard. The article touts such features as the enhanced video RAM ('an expansive 64K'), enhanced CP/M, support for multiple operating systems
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RCretrocomps.bsky.social

One of the most obscure computers I have ever looked up, the Gradiente Expert was a MSX computer for the Brasilian market; a reissue of the National CF-3000 for the Japanese market, styled like a contemporary audio box, cheaper than a C64 but hampered by an incomplete MSX implementation.One of the most obscure computers I have ever looked up, the Gradiente Expert was a MSX computer for the Brasilian market; a reissue of the National CF-3000 for the Japanese market, styled like a contemporary audio box, cheaper than a C64 but hampered by an incomplete MSX implementation.

A three-piece computer unit. Up top, the white monitor reads: "MSX BASIC versão 1.1 Br 'G r a d i e n t e' 28014 bytes livres OK" up top, then "color auto goto list run" down below. The computer itself is a grey pizzabox, with black angular highlighting joining the two cartidge slots and the power light. Image bottom, the Expert's keyboard; a full keyboard, it includes multimedia buttons, a blue directional keypad, and the same angular black highlighting as is on the face of the computer proper. A small recess in the computer allows the keyboard to be locked in place, although this seems only to be to hold the keyboard in position, not to store the keyboard.
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The IBM JX was the last gasp of the IBM PCjr.The IBM JX was the last gasp of the IBM PCjr.

A three-piece desktop computer. Up top is a black CRT, with a single red power button. The pizzabox style case features two 3.25" drives, a recessed red power switch, and an unlabeled future expansion port. The front of the case seems to slide off entirely, which would allow the top to hinge up and off, like their competitor Apple. The keyboard, itself, is black in the familiar IBM layout, with one addition: a raised ridge, where a student might rest a pencil.
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philpem.bsky.social

I've been lusting after a pizzabox MicroVAX and keeping myself satiated with an emulated one running on SIMH... It'd be fun to play with a real one sometime.

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IBM thought they'd sell 200,000 of their Australasian-targeted JX computers. They made 40,000, and only sold 25,000; they wound up giving away 15,000 units to employees rather than admit having to destroy the overstock.IBM thought they'd sell 200,000 of their Australasian-targeted JX computers. They made 40,000, and only sold 25,000; they wound up giving away 15,000 units to employees rather than admit having to destroy the overstock.

A three-piece desktop computer. Up top is a black CRT, with a single red power button. The pizzabox style case features two 3.25" drives, a recessed red power switch, and an unlabeled future expansion port. The front of the case seems to slide off entirely, which would allow the top to hinge up and off, like their competitor Apple. The keyboard, itself, is black in the familiar IBM layout, with one addition: a raised ridge, where a student might rest a pencil.
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Nnanoraptor.danamania.com

Commodore Amiga

A photo of an Amiga computer, made of layers of other Amiga computer, a little more pizzabox than it should be, but also a little less. It's like an Amiga wearing a hat that's also an Amiga, but one laying down in bed on a bed that's an Amiga too.
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CLOSE UP: The Commodore 128DCLOSE UP: The Commodore 128D

A review from the April 1988 Up top, the aforementioned article title, and a picture of the machine itself; the grey machine doesn't look too dissimilar from modern pizzabox computers, with a 5.25" disk drive where a modern pizzabox would have a CD drive, and a detached clickey keyboard that's not too far from IBM standard. The article touts such features as the enhanced video RAM ('an expansive 64K'), enhanced CP/M, support for multiple operating systems
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