Monorail Inc.
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| Formerly | Monorail Inc. (1995–1998) |
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| Company type | Private |
| Industry | Computer hardware |
| Founded | November 2, 1995 |
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| Defunct | July 9, 2005 |
| Fate | Dissolved |
| Headquarters | Marietta, Georgia, U.S. |
Key people | Andrew Watson, VP of marketing |
Number of employees | 40 (1996) |
| Website | monorail.com (archived) |
Monorail Inc., later the Monorail Computer Corporation, was an American computer company founded in 1995 in Marietta, Georgia, by former Compaq executive Doug Johns.
The company produced the Monorail PC, which was an all-in-one computer with a flat-panel LCD. It predated Apple's iMac G4 by about five years.
According to Bloomberg Businessweek, the company "helped spawn a revolution in personal computers ... [selling] machines for as little as $999 in an effort to woo new price-sensitive users", to which larger manufacturers like Compaq and Packard Bell NEC followed suit.
Monorail ceased operations in July 2005.