 Logo used from 1998 to 2003 | |
| Formerly | Monorail Inc. (1995–1998) |
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| Company type | Private |
| Industry | Computer hardware |
| Founded | November 2, 1995 |
| Founder |
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| Defunct | July 9, 2005 |
| Fate | Dissolved |
| Headquarters | Marietta, Georgia, U.S. |
Key people | Andrew Watson, VP of marketing |
Number of employees | 40 (1996) |
| Website | monorail.com (archived) |
Monorail Inc., later the Monorail Computer Corporation,[1] was an American computer company founded in 1995 in Marietta, Georgia, by former Compaq executive Doug Johns.
The company produced the Monorail PC, which was an all-in-one computer with a flat-panel LCD. It predated Apple's iMac G4 by about five years.[2]
According to Bloomberg Businessweek, the company "helped spawn a revolution in personal computers ... [selling] machines for as little as $999 in an effort to woo new price-sensitive users", to which larger manufacturers like Compaq and Packard Bell NEC followed suit.[3]
Monorail ceased operations in July 2005.
- ^ Shmukler 1998.
- ^ Hayes 2002, p. 30.
- ^ O'Crockett 1998.