The Mindset, released in spring 1984, was an Intel 80186-based MS-DOS personal computer. Unlike other IBM PC compatibles of the time, it had custom graphics hardware supporting 16 simultaneous colors (chosen from a 512-shade palette), and hardware-accelerated drawing capabilities including a blitter which allegedly allowed it to update the screen 50 times as fast as a CGA adaptor in a standard PC. The basic unit was priced at . It was conceptually similar to the more successful Commodore Amiga released over a year later.