Enterprise - a 16 bit business computer from only £2,300

Data General was a 1970s minicomputer maker which makes the bold claim of having "pioneered small computers", and the more provable claim of having 14 years' experience in the industry. 

It was also the star of Pulitzer-prize-winning book "The Soul of a New Machine[source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine]".

DG's follow-up machine, Desktop Generation, was launched in July 1983 in New York, an event for which several dozen European journalists were flown over in Concorde.

The Enterprise machine itself used an unusual 16-bit microNova processor and ran several less common operating systems: Enterprise O/S, MP/OS, BOS/S and M/BOS. 

It's perhaps for this reason that Guy Kewney of PCW said of the more-standard follow-up - the DG - that Data General has "finally woken up and produced a sensible micro system"[source: "Supersonic retort", PCW, p. 127]. 

The Enterprise retailed for £2,300 - about [[2300|1983]] in [[now]].