The Piccoline is a direct descendant of the Piccolo, and was launched in 1984.
It was more or less strictly meant for Danish educational institutions
such as schools, high schools and universities. It was used extensively
for teaching basic programming skills, using the languages Comal 80 and
Pascal.
Thanks to Henrik Schmidt from Denmark for information and pictures.
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I also remember this one from primary school back in the eighties. They seemed so serious compared to the C64s and ZX Spectrums common at home. I only recently found out they were made by Regnecentralen.
Thursday 22nd April 2010
Ulrik Hansen (Copenhagen, Denmark)
This is the first computer I sat and "worked" with. I think it must have been back in 1987 (1st grade and me being 7 years old). At my school (Aavangsskolen on Bornholm) we had a room with two "islands" of these machines, as far as I can remember it was a terminal system, one would have disc-drives (5.25") in which we would load a disc, and then all the machines would load. giving us opportunity to play different games.
There was one turn button for the brightness of the screen (in outmost position it switched off) and one dial button for sound. I remember a "happy" sound for correct answers in teh games and a "not so happy" sound when incorrect. I think we used them for 2-3 years untill the room was upgraded to 286 PC's running Windows 3.1 at 12 and 25 Mhz, I might be wrong about this.
Thursday 22nd November 2007
Daniel Nielsen (Malmö, Sweden)
I remember going to Solroed Gymnasium (high school) back in 1994 or 95, where the school upgraded their PC room. They took out all the old picolines, and proceeded to smash them to bits, with big hammers in front of all the students who applauded this act. Except me... I felt sorry for the old machines...
Friday 10th February 2006
Lars (Greve, Denmark)
NAME
RC759 Piccoline
MANUFACTURER
Regnecentralen
TYPE
Professional Computer
ORIGIN
Denmark
YEAR
1984
END OF PRODUCTION
1989
BUILT IN LANGUAGE
None, mostly used with COMAL 80 or PASCAL.
KEYBOARD
Full size QWERTY with Danish characters
CPU
Intel 80186
SPEED
Unknown
RAM
256 KB expandable to 512 KB
VRAM
Unknown
ROM
Unknown
TEXT MODES
80 columns x 24 lines
GRAPHIC MODES
Yes, resolution unknown
COLORS
Monochrome
SOUND
Yes, unknown
I/O PORTS
Printer, monitor, cassette player, remote printer/diskette, optional LAN
BUILT IN MEDIA
5 1/4 ''diskette station with printer interface, sharable between 4 computers
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