The One Per Desk, or OPD, was a British innovative hybrid personal computer and telecommunications terminal based on the hardware of the Sinclair QL. [1] The One Per Desk was built by International Computers Limited (ICL) and launched in the United Kingdom in 1984. [2]

The ICL OPD is an excellent concept. It grabs a corner of the desk and, with the Xchange software, takes care of most of the professional's data processing and telephone needs. By allowing several tasks to be operational at once, OPD comes very close to matching a user's rather erratic way of working.

1986年4月7日 · The result of a three-year collaboration between Sinclair Research, ICL and British Telecom, the OPD had the intriguing addition of a telephone handset on one end of the keyboard, and rudimentary Computer-Telephony Integration (CTI) software.

2003年3月9日 · The ICL OPD (One-Per-Desk) and Merlin Tonto (identical machines internally) were a derivative of the Sinclair QL, featuring the addition of a telephone handset, better keyboard, slightly improved microdrives (sufficiently

The One Per Desk, or OPD, was an innovative hybrid personal computer / telecommunications terminal based on the hardware of the Sinclair QL. The One Per Desk was built by International Computers Limited (ICL) and launched in the UK in 1984.

The ICL One Per Desk Computer (known as the OPD) was released in late 1984 / early 1985 and was based on the Sinclair QL Home Computer, and included improved ZX Microdrive units and a built in telephone and modem, phone directory, speech …

The One Per Desk, or OPD, was an innovative hybrid personal computer/telecommunications terminal based on the hardware of the Sinclair QL. The One Per Desk was built by International Computers Limited (ICL) and launched in the UK in 1984.

The OPD records cartridge use and read failures, and warns when the cartridge is due for renewal. Thanks to improvement work by ICL, the microdrives are considerably more reliable than the Sinclair originals.

International Computers Ltd was a British company formed in 1968 as a part of the Industrial Expansion Act of the Wilson Labour Government. ICL was an initiative of Tony Benn, the Minister of Technology, to create a British computer industry that could compete with major world manufacturers like IBM.

QL's but has an OPD corner. Is it a computer? Is it a telephone? Is it a tape. recorder? No, it's the ICL One Per Desk (aka the ComputerPhone). The IBM personal computer was slow to take off in the UK, where the personal computing scene lagged about 24 months. behind the US for most of the eighties. Moreover, the.