Jet Computer

[pipedream]

I was in an old watermill today which is being renovated. There was a lot of assorted junk in there, but among various old paraphernalia I found an old computer! It had a case with two 5 inch floppy drives and an old CRT monitor. It looked like the case with the floppy drives was an extension as there was another box attached to the monitor.

Among some other stuff I found a matching keyboard. All these things were labeled Jet Computer. Never heard of it. The keyboard felt like an MX black and had oldskool keys labeled "PRINT", "COMMAND" etc. One of the keys was missing and I could see the switch was at least not a cherry switch. It had a rectangular stem with two small metal beams sticking up. Hopefully I'll be able to swipe the keyboard for peanuts!

Anyone ever heard of Jet Computer before? I'm guessing this computer was made somewhere mid 80's

[pipedream]

I remember now that the case was labeled Jet 80. Some google fu gave me the following interesting stuff. It's in swedish:

http://www.datasalen.se/Utstallning/Data/JetComputer/jet80.htm

[Findecanor]

Oh, I remember having seen Jet computers on display in a shopping mall next to their Stockholm office back when I was a kid. I was still young enough then to think that computers were something magical of the future, not understanding a thing about them.

Interesting story on that page you linked. It was a Swedish endeavour that failed. One of many computers that Zilog Z80 and ran a version of CP/M but was later outdone by IBM in the marketplace.