
The History of R2E and the Micral – The second personal computer
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created: June 4, 2025, 6:15 p.m. | updated: June 4, 2025, 9:23 p.m.
In a cellar in the suburbs of Paris, they worked long days and delivered the Micral N in January of 1973.
The very first Micral N was delivered on the 15th of January in 1973 making the Micral N the second microcomputer commercially available.
These systems were also the first from R2E to include both an in-ROM monitor, Moniteur Micral 01 (MOMIC), and an assembler Assembleur Micral 01 (ASMIC).
In 1976, R2E released the Micral M. This was a distributed system built of up to eight Micral S systems accessing shared common memory.
Micral 90-20, Honeywell Bull ad for R2E Micral subsidiaryIn 1981, CII Honeywell Bull fully acquired R2E after R2E had merged with Transac and SEMS.
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