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Dec 5, 2014 · In 1992 along came Ambra, an IBM-compatible PC made by a subsidiary of IBM themselves, called ICPI (Individual Computer Products Ltd.). That IBM marketed its own clone was something of a conundrum, as the Ambra was pitching itself against the IBM PS/VP (Personal System ValuePoint) entry-level PC and others, where price was everything.
Jul 6, 1992 · By Hesh Wiener. Those who don’t prefer cigars can wait until September, when Ambra-type clones may appear in America as IBM’s PS Classic computers. (IBM missed a marketing opportunity in socially traditional Europe by not naming its ICPI products the Low Classic, Middle Classic and Upper Classic models. But ICPI doesn’t feel compelled to ...
Aug 2, 1993 · Merisel Inc will staff the telemarketing operations of Ambra and will provide access to its vast product catalogue. Ambra desktop models with a 80486DX2 chip will start at $2,000. Colour notebooks go from $2,000 to $3,500. TP66E2/VL with dual 60MHz Pentiums, is $5,000. They use AT or EISA bus and offer MS-DOS 6 and Windows.
By the summer of 1993, the IBM PC Co. had divided into multiple business units itself, including Ambra Computer Corporation and the IBM Power Personal Systems Group, the former an attempt to design and market "clone" computers of IBM's own architecture and the latter responsible for IBM's PowerPC-based workstations. [9] [10]
Feb 20, 2020 · My item on the old Ambra PC - an early/ mid 1990s Windows PC that was actually an IBM clone made b...
Ambra Computer Corporation was a subsidiary of IBM. Created by Dr Richard Greame Ambra, it introduced a line of personal computers targeted at the home user, sold mainly through mail-order, first in Europe (1992), then in the USA (1993). Ambra had a volume production run of just a year or so; the line was discontinued in 1994 [1] in favor of ...
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Jan 12, 2002 · That idea eventually got nixed and IBM decided to open a direct PC operation under the brand name Ambra. The only problem was that IBM had also set up a direct PC operation--conveniently located ...
