NBI Incorporated

NBI Incorporated was an American computer company based in Boulder, Colorado that offered word processing systems. NBI was known for their office automation systems; dedicated hardware platforms for word processing, document production and records management. NBI stood for Nothing But Initials

Products

Products included:

• NBI System 3000
• NBI OASys 4000S
• NBI OASys 4100S and 4100X

NBI System 3000

The NBI System 3000 was marketed as a Paperwork Processor, with different software packages targeted at specific use cases. It was sold in two main configurations; Single Station and Dual Station. The Single Station package consisted of master console with a single 8" floppy drive and daisy-wheel printer capable of 55 characters per second. The Dual Station added a slave console, a secondary floppy drive to the master console. In addition to the basic word processing functions of the system, optional hardware and software packages included:

• Wide document and dual-headed printers
• Statistical mathematics package
• Equation typing package
• Asynchronous communications package; a modem capable of communication with a range of different systems at speeds up to 4800 baud.
• Records processing package; a basic non-relational database system capable of storing up to 70 fields per record.

NBI OASys 4100 Series

The OASys 4100S and 4100X were introduced in May 1984. The 4100S came with single or dual 5¼" floppy disk drives, and the 4100X with a single disk drive and a 10MB hard drive. Both systems were partially IBM-compatible and came with 128KB RAM.

NBI Incorporated entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 1991 after several loss-making years.

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