The LGP-30, standing for Librascope General Purpose and later Librascope General Precision, is an early off-the-shelf computer manufactured by the Librascope company of Glendale, California, and sold and serviced by the Royal Precision Electronic Computer Company, a joint venture with the Royal McBee division of the Royal Typewriter Company. It was first manufactured in 1956, at a retail price of 47,000 dollars, equivalent to about 560,000 dollars in 2025. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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SignificanceSold and serviced through Royal McBee, a joint venture with the Royal Typewriter Company, rather than by Librascope directly, at a retail price of 47,000 dollars, equivalent to about 560,000 dollars in 2025. 1 Sources
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