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British schools were filled with these non-IBM compat, DOS compat 80186 PCs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RM_Nimbus

The earlier Z80-based RML 380Z and 480Z machines from the same company were interesting as well. They were said to be the only computers designed to work with a boiled sweet shoved in the disk drive. They ran MP/M and CP/NET (effectively networking for CP/M).

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