First post, by MMaximus
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This computer was sold in France under the brand Kenitec in the early '90s. I haven't found much information about Kenitec but google reveals it was trademarked by "Arche Technologies" (which is the brand on the PSU). Maybe the Arche brand was more known elsewhere and they had the Kenitec brand reserved for Europe?
I acquired 7 of these from the same seller a while ago and have been restoring a few of them so far. Most of them had a Suntac based 286-12 motherboard (marked "AMA-1240V1-D") - this one has 2MB of RAM.
It came with a Paradise PVGA1A-JK 8-bit VGA:
An ASI-5105 Controller Card. The parts seem to have received a label during assembly displaying either "TL-BL" or "TL-BK"... no idea what it meant.
A Seagate ST-157A 42Mb IDE HDD:
The case is quite nice and has a few similarities with an IBM 5160 - front sliding top cover, black paint on the inside, and a larger PSU (XT style?) with the classic red power switch on the side.
The BIOS is from Phoenix (version 3.10.22) and is very basic. It doesn't allow user-type HDD but it might be possible to upgrade the board with a different BIOS.
And finally... the original 1990 ad: