Cincinatti Milacron, and other non-computer companies in the business of building computers.

And if you look on page 36 of Domestic Commercial Computing Power Between 1950 & 1979 (DCCP) you find information about the Cincinatti Milacron George - a true SBC (small business computer). As Allison pointed out, there were models 2100, 2200, and now we know about George. General Mills also dabbled in computer building. You won't find it in DCCP since it was designed and marketed for industrial control. There were many companies that got into, but perhaps the most successful was the Lyons company in England. No one had the type of computer they needed in the early 1950s so they built their own - the LEO - Lyons Electronic Office. From this sprouted ICT, then ICL, and now some non-British company owns what was once ICL. Is the do it yourself spirit still around? Yours in good faith. Kevin Stumpf - The Nostalgic Technophile www.unusual.on.ca - 519.744.2900 EST/EDT (GMT - 5) Author & Publisher of The Guide to Collecting Computers and Computer Collectibles: History, Practice, and Technique