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TRIUMPH ADLER
ALPHATRONIC PC

Triumph was originally Triumph-Adler - the merger company of the 2 typewriter manufacturers Triumph and Adler, to which Triumph (which also produced mechanical calculators and sewing-machines) was the bigger one. Later they got US-typewriter Royal merged into it and had the best years between 1975 and 1988, when they even build competiting machines to IBM System /34 and /36 ... but they did neither understand nor learn the business and ran out of the financial power.

The technical part of TA is today a subsidary of Olivetti which tells it all about the downfall of TA. The operational part is a Holding in Nuremberg, which deals with offices, buildings and health-care.

The Alphatronic was mainly sold in Germany and was intended as a 'hybrid' Business / Home machine. For Business it was sold as either a 'dumb' Terminal or as a stand-alone Word Processor 'package' (consisting of base unit, WP Cartridge and (Centronics) printer.

For home the base unit had a 'built in' Basic ROM - it was also available with either a single or dual Floppy Disks (which included CP/M and Disk basic).

It never sold very well in either market - it was much too expensive for home use.

Thanks to its Z80 CPU, the Alphatronic PC can run CP/M and quite a few software packages available for it. There were two external disk-drives available: F1 and F2. F1 had the controller built-in. You had to have F1 to use F2, the second one.

Sometimes, the Alphatronic PC was sold as a complete wordprocessing package with a daisy-wheel printer (Triumph-Adler TR-170) and a word-processing cartridge inserted into the ROM-pack slot (top left part of the case).

Towards the end of it's life, the British Company, MATMOS sold off the final 'batch' or single & dual floppy packages together with a RGB-PAL convertor box.

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Anybody interested in getting lots of parts and some functional Systems for free? I''m living in a Nuremberg and if you are interested send me an e-mail.

          
Saturday 4th September 2021
Joachim Feld (Deutschland)

Package deal on this computer, with disk drive, monitor and software was sold for $498 during summer 1985 (marked down from $1448 according to the info): https://youtu.be/TTi80NldsYE?t$289

          
Monday 2nd August 2021
Numanoid (Norway)

My very first programming job, when I was 19, was programming accounts receivable, sales lead tracking, and creating some spreadsheets on a Royal Alphatronic PC in 1986, in Peabody at the New England Home Planning Center, a place that sold modular homes. 33 years later and I''m still hacking. All the coding I did on this thing was in Beginners All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. I forget the name of the software, but PeachTree rings a bell. Would love to find one on eBay for a trip down memory lane.

          
Tuesday 22nd October 2019
Seawarrior (Danvers, MA USA)
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NAME  ALPHATRONIC PC
MANUFACTURER  Triumph Adler
TYPE  Professional Computer
ORIGIN  Germany
YEAR  1983
BUILT IN LANGUAGE  Microsoft Basic 5.11
KEYBOARD  Full-stroke keyboard, 6 function keys, arrow keys and separated numeric keypad, 85 keys
CPU  Zilog Z80
SPEED  4 MHz
RAM  64 KB (28 156 bytes free in Basic!)
ROM  32 KB
TEXT MODES  40 or 80 chars. x 24 lines
GRAPHIC MODES  80 x 72 / 160 x 72 dots
COLORS  8
SOUND  1 voice, built-in speaker
SIZE / WEIGHT  40.5 (W) x 25.5 (D) x 7.3 (H) cm / 3,5 kg
I/O PORTS  RGB video out, Tape interface, Serial RS232c/V24 port (from 300 to 9600 baud), Centronics/Parallel port, Disk-drive connector, Cartridge/Rompack slot
BUILT IN MEDIA  optional one or two 5.25'' disk-drives (320 kb each)
OS  CP/M 2.1 (then 2.2) with diskdrives
POWER SUPPLY  Built-in power supply unit
PERIPHERALS  5''1/4 disk-drives, printers (DRH 80/1 and TRD-170)
PRICE  1500 DM (Germany, 83)
£347 (U.K., 1984)
$498 (USA, 1985)




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