Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Terak 8510/a is a desktop workstation with an LSI-11 compatible processor, a graphical frame buffer, and a text mode with downloadable fonts, used in the late 1970s and early 1980s in some U.S. universities. Despite the lack of a MMU, it was capable of running a stripped version of UNIX version 6. It was the first machine for which the UCSD p-System was developed. The Terak 8510/a was the first graphics desktop computer system. In conjunction with the UCSD p-System, it provided immediate graphic feedback from simple programs encouraging students to learn. Three entrepreneurs created the company in 1975: Brian Benzar, William Mayberry and Dennis Kodimer. The products were manufactured in Scottsdale, Arizona from 1976 thru 1984. Sales reached $10M and Terak was publicly traded in 1983-84. Besides the original frame-buffer-centric 8510/a, other products were developed: color graphics and a Unix workstation.

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