The IPT plan was presented to the press on January 25, 1985 by Laurent Fabius, Prime Minister at the time.
The selection of industry partners was entrusted to Gilbert Trigano, co-founder of Club Méditerranée, connected with French companies such as Exelvision, Léanord, SMT Goupil, Thomson, Bull, LogAbax, etc.
The PC was equipped with two 5¼ inch floppy disk drives, one used for the operating system (MS-DOS 2.11), the other with data for the Thomsons.
Intended to develop the French IT sector based on the LSE language, Minitel and light pen, these solutions didn't become mainstream.
Institutions wishing to continue teaching IT were faced with the obsolescence of equipment, and following the start of decentralization in France, modernization costs had to be supported by local authorities (totaling around 6 to 8 billion euros).