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LATEST ADDITIONS MIDWICH Microcontroller Called the Midwich Microcontroller, this British computer was developped to provide a small desktop micro capable of running other equipment throug a variety of interface cards. In 1979 an Italian IC manufacturer designed and began to sell a single board micro system that could be expanded to a full system with a VDU, discs, etc. Called the Nanocomputer, it was manufactured by SGS Ates and one of the distributors in the UK was Midwich. The Nano was somewhat expensive and suffered from a numbe... RADIONIC Model R1001 This is an extremly rare TRS-80 Model 1 clone, based on an other clone: The Komtek 1 (from Germany). It's equiped with a Level II basic and powered by a Zilog Z80 cpu. _________ Contributors : Incog... BASF 7100 The BASF 7000 systems are professional computers from Germany. They seem to be based on the Microterm II Intelligent Terminal by Digi-Log Systems, Inc. There were several models in the 7000 serie.... PERTEC PCC 2000 PCC 2000 is a professional computer released in 1978. It was designed in 1978 by Pertec, the company which merged with MITS by the end of 1976. The PCC is conceived as a monobloc machine, where the display and two 8" floppy disk drives are built-in the main case. The mechanical keyboard offers separated numeric and editing keypads. The system is powered by an Intel 8085 microprocessor and offers 64 KB RAM. The whole thing was apparently delivered with an extended Basic language, which has... TERTA TAP-34 TAP 34 is a self design of Terta company from Hungary. Primarily it was designed as a terminal for big computer systems but it was also able to process data alone. The main integrated circuits were assembled in the USSR and in Hungary by Tungsram, but several parts were imported from other countries. The built-in monitor was a DME-28 monochrome CRT made by Orion. This company was famous for its televisions in Hungary and the other KGST countries. The floppy drive attached to the compute... MCM COMPUTERS  MCM 800 Based on the MCM 70 / 700 (see this entry for more info), the MCM 800 followed in 1976. It was faster, included 16 KB RAM (instead of 8 KB for the 700), and included the ability to drive an external monitor. Among other things, MCM 800s were used in one of the first french industrial network called Gixinet (along with ARCnet). This was a token-bus type network developped by the Gixi company.... IMLAC PDS-1 no description yet... COMMODORE  C64 Golden Jubilee Between 1984 (in the U.S.) and 1986 (in Germany), Commodore International celebrated the 1,000,000 machines sold mark in these respective countries by issuing special "Gold" editions of the Commodore C64. These machines were regular C64 models, except they were Golden-colored and fixed on a commemorative plate. The following information comes from Death Adder : Until December 1986, 1,000,000 Commodore 64s were sold in Germany. On this occasion, Commodore Buromaschinen GmbH (... ORDISOR PCC 2000 PCC 2000 is an obscure professional computer released in 1980. It was marketed by Ordisor in France, (a company belonging to the group Sofragem) but the machine was in fact imported from U.S.A. The PCC 2000 was designed there in 1798 by Pertec, the company which merged with MITS by the end of 1976. The only information source we have for the french version is an advert from may 1980. Looking at the picture, the PCC seems to be conceived as a monobloc machine,... COMMODORE  VIC-1001 The VIC-1001 is the first of the VIC series of computers, which includes the tremendously successful VIC-20. The VIC-1001 was only sold in Japan. As such, it includes a special character ROM and keyboard that allow the user to enter Katakana characters. As often with Commodore, the origin of the "-1001" moniker is unclear. It might be a reference to another popular Commodore system, the PET-2001. When he introduced the VIC-100...    RANDOM SYSTEMS ELWRO 800 Junior The Elwro 800 series was designed in 1985 by people from the Automatics Institute of Technical University in Poznan, following the request of Polish Ministry of Education. The final product had to be: • Cheap, • ZX Spectrum compatible, • Appropriate for school use. The computer went into production in 1986 in Elwro Electronic Factory of Wroclaw, Poland. It was fully Spectrum compatible. Designers also added network capability to access t... MATSUSHITA  National JR 100 The National (also known as Panasonic or Matsushita in other countries) JR series was pretty popular in Japan. Small quantities were sold outside Japan, in New Zeland among other countries. Little is known about the first system of the range (please help!). It was obviously an initiation machine with black & white display and rubber keyboard. The JR 100 was followed by the JR 200. Thanks to Murray Moffatt from New Zeland for most of the informatio... MULTITECH  MPF-1 Plus The MPF 1P (MicroProfessor 1 Plus), is an improved version of the MPF 1. Like its brother, it is a learning tool for use in the teaching of microprocessor, microelectronics, and control technology. It has a better keyboard. Instead of the hexadecimal keyboard of the MPF 1, this one is a real "QWERTY" one, with CONTROL and SHIFT keys. There is even a RESET key at the top right (red key). The VFD display is also larger. It can now display 20 characters instea... TANDY RADIO SHACK  Color Computer The Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer was known to be called "coco" (Color Computer) by its users. It uses its own version of BASIC, "Tandy Color BASIC" instead of the world famous Microsoft BASIC. It was followed by the TRS-80 Color Computer II in 1982. The Welsh Dragon 32 was one of its many clones... _____________________________ More information about the various Tandy Color BASIC ... BULL  TTX 80 / 85 / 90 In January 1979, Bull signed an Agreement with CPT corporation, a company based in Minnesota, USA, for the distribution of word processing equipment by Bull. Three 8000 series systems were bought from CPT and sold under the Bull label, the TTX-80, TTX-85 and TTX-90. These massive systems featured an Intel 8080 processor, 64 to 256 KB of RAM, a dual 8" floppy drive and above, a portrait monitor that could display a full page of A4. They were connected to a dedicate... PANASONIC FH 2000 The FH-2000 was the successor of the Panasonic HHC. Like its predecessor, it was a portable machine intended to run professional custom applications. The computer was solidly built, featuring an IBM/PC-like keyboard and an 8-line LCD display located into the cover. The basic software was comprised of an 8086 BIOS and a BASIC interpreter close to the Microsoft/GW-Basic, stored in one of the four ROM sockets. These sockets provided up to 512 KB of memory area... TANDY RADIO SHACK  1000 The Tandy 1000 was a line of IBM PC compatible computers made during the 1980’s by the American Tandy Corporation for sale in their chain of Radio Shack electronics stores in Canada and the USA. The Tandy 1000 would be the successor to their influential TRS-80 line of computers, the Tandy 1000 would eventually replace the COCO line of 8 bit computers as well when Tandy decided to prematurely end tha... OKI  A 10 The OKI A10 series was comprised of Intel based computers holding either 80286 or 80386 CPU (model 10/30/50/60) or an 80486 (model 70). They ran MS-DOS and specific Office Automation software. All models supported TCP/IP and 10Base2 networks. They could be used as servers or work stations for the Oki A100 series of computers and network servers.... TANDY RADIO SHACK  TRS-80 Model 200 The Tandy 200 was an evolution of the successful Tandy 100. It offered more RAM and a bigger display. The computer was powered by internal batteries, providing up to 16 hours(!) of use. A lot of utilities were in ROM: a telecommunication program (telcom) which used the built-in modem, MSPLAN spreadsheet (light version of Multiplan), text editor, calendar, address book and BASIC Programming Language. 3.5" floppy disk drives could be connected via the RS-232.... TOSHIBA  T 100 The T100 was the US version of the Japanese PASOPIA computer. It was intended to be a professional CP/M machine. It had a small built-in LCD screen (6 or 8 lines of 40 characters or 320 x 64 pixels in graphic mode). This LCD screen was an option (not built-in). It fitted into slots at the back of the keyboard/cpu unit. There were 2 CRTs available: 13" monochrome (green), and 15" color with a proprietary RGB interface. The twin floppy drive was a separate box. It was possible to plug a m...

RANDOM ADVERTS THOMSON TO 7   SPECTRAVIDEO SV 318   BRD Dolphin   POLYMORPHIC System 8813   ATARI 800   BANDAI Gundam RX-78   CW/P Cortex   TIMEX / SINCLAIR 1000   NCR PC6   SINCLAIR ZX 81   SANYO MBC-55x   VECTOR GRAPHICS Vector 1   AVT ELECTRONICS Comp 2   HANIMEX PENCIL II   COMMODORE C64   KENBAK COMPUTER COMPANY Kenbak-1   TOSHIBA PASOPIA 16 / T300 / PAP   SIRIUS COMPUTER Victor 9000 / Sirius 1   AMSTRAD CPC 464   IBM PC - Model 5150   SINCLAIR ZX SPECTRUM   DATAMAN DESIGNS Menta   HEATHKIT / ZENITH H-89   MSI 6800      LATEST COMMENTS Luigi Urbinati 2/2/2010 OLIVETTI  M24 I''m selling an original Olivetti M24 for 400$, please contact me for payment and shipping. (luigiurbinati10@gmail.com) Paul 2/2/2010 RESEARCH MACHINES RM-380Z On your page, Ben Jones remembers: " I remember using a 380Z in Canterbury, around 1980. As well as the excellent text editor (can''t remember what it was called now, but I found nothing comparable for a decade afterwards), I loved the simplicity of programming it in assembler." It was called TXED. Back in 1979-83 I was a grad student who went hacking at RML''s establishments (which varied over the years) at evenings and weekends. I was later the first employee of the spin-off company High Level Hardware where my principle role was writing the system microcode. I still have a blue-box RM380Z in my attic, as well as a pair of black-box systems fitted with 5.25" floppies. Two sets of 8" floppy drives are up there too. Happy days. chris 1/23/2010 ATARI  520 ST / ST+ / STM I have a couple of these machines and run R/c Aerochopper-brilliant! For its time, it provides great entertainment, $ requires considerable concentration,especially hitting the target-any idea as to the Value of these machines-I have original manual $ packing box ? Dave Beck 1/22/2010 EACA  VIDEO GENIE 1 / EG-3003 I wrote my first program on mine in Quick Basic, it was a stock control database written from first principles it was 16Kb and it took 10 mins to load from audio tape. Milo Davies 1/22/2010 VIDEO TECHNOLOGY  LASER 3000 This was the first computer I owned. Purchased in New Zealand for NZ$1250 through Dick Smith Electronics. Dick Smith Electronics marketed it as the CAT. It was said to be 96$ compatible with the Apple IIe when the "Emulator Catridge" was installed. The documentation I had, claimed that the Emulator Catridge increased memory from 48KB to 64KB. At the time, a genuine Apple IIe was at least double that price so it represented good value for money. I owned it for about 4 years and it proved to be reliable. Craig Carr 1/18/2010 ROCKWELL  AIM 65 This was the very first computer that I programmed on around 77-78. I remember my dad would bring it home from work for eproms. And their were different chipsets you could put in for different languages. I used the Basic and the fortran. Bein the geek kid I was , I wrote some simple video games that would appear on the screen but also on the on board thermal printer. The one I remember best was a downhill skiiing game.. where you would avoid the trees.. It used up too much paper to play too long though.. It was fun writing and playing the game in "real" time on the printer. Craig Carr 1/18/2010 COMMODORE  PET / CBM 40xx Sometime between 1979 and 1981 I remember going to the library in our High School and a group of us would check out the cassette tapes required to load programs onto the PET. We also created several of our own games which we had to store on cassette tape. I think I still have one of those tapes around. The funnest game we made was a spaceship game that was better than asteroids. I was also taking fortran as a class on a Burroughs mainframe using Punch cards at the time.