11 Nov
2000
11 Nov
'00
7:40 a.m.
SoCalTip skrev:
On 11 Nov 2000, Iggy Drougge wrote:
> The 80186 was also utilised in the Swedish
educational computer COMPIS,
> designed to run CP/M and the Danish COMAL language.
I never heard of the COMPIS....I do remember a Swedish
computer called
the ABC-80...never actually saw one of those, but someone wrote an
emulator for it...really bad, TRS-80 Model I type graphics but it did
have a decent pinball game that someone wrote in BASIC...
The ABC-80's best feature was its keyboard, which was far more luxurious than
anything else on that micro. Indigenous manufacture is also a great selling
point. In fact, in 1982, the ABC 800 (sucessor to the ABC 80) was the
dominating personal computer in Sweden. The following year, the IBM PC was
introduced, and drove Luxor out of the market.
The holy grail of Luxor computing would be the ABC 1600, though. 68008
processor high-resoluting workstation (with mouse) running ABCnix (SVR3?).
> It had high-resoluting
> graphics (for its time), but was a quite a bad idea, developed by a company
> run by an old pornographer and given the public contract on dubious
> grounds.
Whoo-hoo. Do tell...
I think I've got an article about the affair in a pamphlet from Hogia's now
defunct computer museum. In case it's of any interest.
BTW, did you know that there actually was a language released two or three
years ago called Socal (WRT your nickname)? I believe it was some kind of mix
between Pascal and m68k assembly.
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