The Epson Equity series of IBM Compatible Personal Computer

Personal computer

A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator...

s was manufactured from 1985 until the early '90s by Epson Inc. Epson was well known for its dot matrix

Dot matrix

A dot matrix is a 2-dimensional array of LED used to represent characters, symbols and images.Typically the dot matrix is used in older computer printers and many digital display devices. In printers, the dots are usually the darkened areas of the paper...

 printers at the time and the Equity series represents their entry into the growing PC compatible market. The Equity I was the first system introduced, equipped with an Intel 8088

Intel 8088

The Intel 8088 microprocessor was a variant of the Intel 8086 and was introduced on July 1, 1979. It had an 8-bit external data bus instead of the 16-bit bus of the 8086. The 16-bit registers and the one megabyte address range were unchanged, however...

 CPU and one or two 5.25" floppy disk drives.

Models

• Equity I
• Equity Ie
• Equity I+
• Equity II
• Equity II+
• Equity III
• Equity III+
• Equity LT
• Equity 286
• Equity 386SX
• Equity 386DX