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title: TRIUMPH ADLER ALPHATRONIC PC
categories:
- Computers
types:
- Professional Computer
origins:
- Germany
years:
- '1983'
cpus:
- Zilog Z80
params:
name: ALPHATRONIC PC
company: /companies/triumph-adler
company_name: TRIUMPH ADLER
specs:
- label: NAME
value: ALPHATRONIC PC
- label: MANUFACTURER
value: Triumph Adler
- label: TYPE
value: Professional Computer
- label: ORIGIN
value: Germany
- label: YEAR
value: '1983'
- label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE
value: Microsoft Basic 5.11
- label: KEYBOARD
value: Full-stroke keyboard, 6 function keys, arrow keys and separated numeric keypad, 85 keys
- label: CPU
value: Zilog Z80
- label: SPEED
value: 4 MHz
- label: RAM
value: 64 KB (28 156 bytes free in Basic!)
- label: ROM
value: 32 KB
- label: TEXT MODES
value: 40 or 80 chars. x 24 lines
- label: GRAPHIC MODES
value: 80 x 72 / 160 x 72 dots
- label: COLORS
value: '8'
- label: SOUND
value: 1 voice, built-in speaker
- label: SIZE / WEIGHT
value: 40.5 (W) x 25.5 (D) x 7.3 (H) cm / 3,5 kg
- label: I/O PORTS
value: RGB video out, Tape interface, Serial RS232c/V24 port (from 300 to 9600 baud), Centronics/Parallel port, Disk-drive connector, Cartridge/Rompack slot
- label: BUILT IN MEDIA
value: optional one or two 5.25'' disk-drives (320 kb each)
- label: OS
value: CP/M 2.1 (then 2.2) with diskdrives
- label: POWER SUPPLY
value: Built-in power supply unit
- label: PERIPHERALS
value: 5''1/4 disk-drives, printers (DRH 80/1 and TRD-170)
- label: PRICE
value: |-
1500 DM (Germany, 83)\
£347 (U.K., 1984)\
$498 (USA, 1985)
tabs:
- photos
- adverts
- hardware
photos:
- title: ALPHATRONIC PC
subtitle: ''
text: Thanks to Steve Buniak for this picture
image: null
- title: ROYAL ALPHATRONIC PC
subtitle: ''
text: This model was sold in the USA by Royal
image: null
- title: REAR
subtitle: ''
text: Thanks to Steve Buniak for this picture
image: null
- title: LEFT SIDE
subtitle: ''
text: Thanks to Steve Buniak for this picture
image: null
- title: ABOVE
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: null
- title: UNDERNEATH
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: null
adverts:
- title: 'FRENCH ADVERT #1'
subtitle: ''
text: '"The family advice"'
image: null
- title: 'FRENCH ADVERT #2'
subtitle: ''
text: The personal computer at the top of its form.
image: null
- title: END OF LIFE
subtitle: ''
text: At the end of 1985, the entire stock of Alphatronic PC and peripherals is sold to brokers which sold them at 25% of the original price.
image: null
- title: FRENCH AD (JUNE 1986)
subtitle: ''
text: In 1986, the Alphatronic PC was bargained in many broker shops for a low price.
image: null
hardware:
- title: TV ADAPTOR
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: null
- title: EXTERNAL DISK DRIVE
subtitle: ''
text: Thanks to Steve Buniak for this picture
image: null
- title: F1 AND F2 DISK-DRIVES
subtitle: ''
text: These are 5''1/4 diskdrives (320kb each). F1 has the disk-controller built-in and can be connected directly to the computer, whereas F2 is a stand-alone disk-drive and has to be linked to F1 (thus the disk controller) to be used.
image: null
comments:
- author: Joachim Feld (Deutschland)
date: Saturday 4th September 2021
text: 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.
- author: Numanoid (Norway)
date: Monday 2nd August 2021
text: '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'
- author: Seawarrior (Danvers, MA USA)
date: Tuesday 22nd October 2019
text: 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.
- author: Obada El''esh (Jordan)
date: Wednesday 16th August 2017
text: |-
Hello everyone,\
does anyone know how much does it cost to get this legacy PC it''s great ? can we find it in auctions ? or something
- author: Hans van der Puijl (Belgium)
date: Sunday 8th January 2012
text: |-
Hello,\
All this is about the TA PC 8, from wich I have 1 Matmos and 2 TA mainunits 1x F1 and 1x F2 Floppy and a 4x 5 MB HD(seagate 225) and FD80/40 trackn system and lots of software CP/M 2.2 $3 ,NZ-com,Z3plus and diskbasic based.\
But there is also a PC16 also a mainunit and 2 external floppydrives with 8088 cpu and MS-DOS compatible. I have one but have n''t used it a long time so I can''t remember how much $ in any case it will not start from IBM or Microsoft disks.
Groetjes,
Hans
- author: Brian Futrell (Raleigh, NC)
date: Friday 13rd May 2005
text: As a teenager, one of my friends had one of these. However, his was branded by Royal and included the monitor, floppy drive and software. I don't know if he still has it or not.
- author: Roger (southington connecticut ,USA)
date: Tuesday 22nd July 2003
text: i love this computer, i got it free from a metal shop, it has been in use constantly untill the diskd drive died last month, if anyone has an extra of one for sale ,please email me
oc_id: 241
source:
url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230324214131/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=241
date: '2023-03-24'
---
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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Contributors: Steeve Buniak