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=== In personal computers === Because the integrated hardware included in the 80186 was incompatible with the support chips chosen by [[IBM]] for the [[8088]]-based [[IBM PC]] released a few months earlier, the chip did not see wide success in the PC market. IBM chose the [[80286]] for its successor, the [[IBM Personal Computer/AT|IBM PC/AT]], released in August 1984. Most other PC-compatible manufactures followed. Regardless, several notable [[personal computer]]s used the 80186: * Danish [[Regnecentralen]]: [https://datamuseum.dk/wiki/RC_Partner RC750 Partner] running CCP/M * Danish [[Regnecentralen]]: [https://datamuseum.dk/wiki/RC_Piccoline RC759 Piccoline] running CCP/M * Australian [[Dulmont Magnum]] laptop, one of the first laptops * [[Wang Laboratories|Wang]] Office Assistant, marketed as a PC-like stand-alone word processor * [[MAD-1]], a semiโIBM PC-compatible desktop computer with a modular design * [[Pronto System 16]], another PC compatible * [[Mindset (computer)|Mindset]], a very early graphics workstation * [[Siemens]] {{Interlanguage link|Siemens PC-D{{!}}PC-D|de|3=Siemens PC-D}} (not 100% [[IBM PC compatible]] but using [[MS-DOS]] 2.11) * [[Compis]], a [[Sweden|Swedish]] school computer * French [[SMT-Goupil]] G4 * [[RM Nimbus]] PC-186, the first version of a series of British school computers * [[Unisys ICON]], a Canadian school computer * ORB Computer by ABS<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nosher.net/archives/computers/pcw_1984-03-00_007_orb |title=Orb Micro Advert - March 1984 |access-date=2024-12-01}}</ref> * [[HP 100LX]], [[HP 200LX]], [[HP 1000CX]], and [[HP OmniGo 700LX]] * [[Tandy 2000]] desktop, a somewhat PC-compatible workstation with sharp graphics for its day * Telex 1260, a desktop PC-XT compatible * [[Philips :YES]] * Nokia [[MikroMikko]] 2 * [[IBM PCradio]] * [[Altos Computer Systems|Altos]] 486 xenix 3.1 based multiuser server. In addition to the above examples of stand-alone implementations of the 80186 for personal computers, there were at least two examples of "add-in" accelerator card implementations: the [[BBC Master#Master 512|BBC Master 512]], [[Acorn Computers|Acorn]]'s plug-in for the BBC Master range of computers containing an 80186โ10 with 512 KB of RAM, and the [[Orchid Technology]] PC Turbo 186,<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2i4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA49 |title=Adding Spunk to the IBM PC |magazine=[[InfoWorld]] |date=May 20, 1985 | page=49 |volume=7 |issue=20 |first=Don |last=Crabb}}</ref> released in 1985. It was intended for use with the original [[Intel 8088]]-based [[IBM Personal Computer|IBM PC]] (Model 5150).
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