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title: HOLBORN 9100
categories:
- Computers
types:
- Professional Computer
origins:
- Netherlands
years:
- '1981'
cpus:
- Z80-A
params:
name: '9100'
company: /companies/holborn
company_name: HOLBORN
specs:
- label: NAME
value: '9100'
- label: MANUFACTURER
value: Holborn
- label: TYPE
value: Professional Computer
- label: ORIGIN
value: Netherlands
- label: YEAR
value: '1981'
- label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE
value: None
- label: KEYBOARD
value: Full-stroke keyboard with numeric keypad and function keys
- label: CPU
value: Z80-A
- label: SPEED
value: 4 Mhz.
- label: RAM
value: 72 KB expandable to 220 KB
- label: ROM
value: unknown
- label: TEXT MODES
value: unknown
- label: GRAPHIC MODES
value: unknown
- label: COLORS
value: Monochrome
- label: SOUND
value: unknown
- label: BUILT IN MEDIA
value: 2 x 8'' 1.2 MB floppy disc drives. Optional 30 MB hard disk
- label: OS
value: Holborn OS or CP/M
- label: POWER SUPPLY
value: Built-in power supply unit
- label: PRICE
value: About $10,000 for a full-sized version
tabs:
- adverts
- links
adverts:
- title: HOMO-COMPUTERUS
subtitle: ''
text: |-
This image is from a brochure of a Dutch exhibition called "The office of the future"
Courtesy of the **Computer museum of the University of Amsterdam**
image: null
links:
- title: Allard's Computer Museum Groningen
url: http://www.computermuseumgroningen.nl/holborn/holborn.html
text: More detailed info here with good pictures
comments:
- author: Neil macPherson (UK)
date: Saturday 27th February 2021
text: The info text states that the Holborn 9100 had 64k ram and needed to use bank switching,this is not true because 64k ram is the maximum amount of memory that an 8 bit proccessor can access.
- author: Yan
date: Monday 2nd December 2019
text: The monitor design looks like something coming out from an early 1970s sci-fi movie. It''s kind of scary for me.
- author: Allard (Groningen The Netherlands)
date: Tuesday 24th January 2006
text: |-
For more pictures and details see the url
Greetings,
Allard
- author: linkman (Slovak republic)
date: Thursday 21st April 2005
text: heh nice design of monitor
oc_id: 749
source:
url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230529195224/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=749
date: '2023-05-29'
---
The Holborn System 9100/9200 computer was a Dutch product ("born in Holland") consisting of a science-fiction style desk-top display/keyboard unit, a processor box with two or four 8" floppy drives and a printer. The processor was a Z80 with 64 KB of address space.
There were two versions : the larger one used a proprietary multi-user operating system, one feature of which was the use of a lightpen for much the same purposes as today's mouse. The smaller machine used CP/M without lightpen interaction. The computer was mainly sold to small companies for administration and bookkeeping purposes.
The machine's hardware was designed by H.A. Polak, the console by Vos Industrial Designers. The disks and the system electronics were in a separate refrigator-sized housing (a desktop box for the smaller system); the console shown in the picture mainly contains a converted MicroBee terminal.
The Holborn company was founded in 1979, it's head office was in Holten (Hol born). The company has been active until 1983, when it bankrupted. Like most manufacturers of computer systems of original design around the world, it hasn't survived the competition of IBM and the IBM-PC-clone builders. About 200 machines were sold, 50 of them of the larger variety.
Thanks to the [Computer museum of the University of Amsterdam](http://www.science.uva.nl/faculteit/museum/) for text and pictures.
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