--- title: ITT 3030 categories: - Computers types: - Professional Computer origins: - U.S.A. years: - '1982' cpus: - Z80A params: name: '3030' image: /media/museum/photos/itt_3030_1.jpg company: /companies/itt company_name: ITT specs: - label: NAME value: '3030' - label: MANUFACTURER value: ITT - label: TYPE value: Professional Computer - label: ORIGIN value: U.S.A. - label: YEAR value: February 1982 - label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE value: Basic Microsoft 5.0 delivered on disks - label: KEYBOARD value: QWERTY/AZERTY full-stroke keyboard, numeric keybad, editing keypad, 8 function keys, 128 non-ASCII characters, lower case and accuented letters, 32 semi-graphic characters, auto-repeat keys - label: CPU value: Z80A (Intel 8086 optional) - label: SPEED value: '4Mhz (8086 : 6Mhz)' - label: RAM value: 64kb (up to 256kb with 64k addons) - label: ROM value: 2kb (up to 32kb) - label: TEXT MODES value: 80 x 24 / 64 x 24 - label: GRAPHIC MODES value: 512 x 256, 512 x 512 - label: COLORS value: '16' - label: SOUND value: Beeper - label: SIZE / WEIGHT value: 12,5kg - label: I/O PORTS value: RS 232c, Centronics, Video output - label: BUILT IN MEDIA value: |- 2 x 5.25'' disk-drives (double side, double density), 280k each\ average access time : 250ms\ Up to 3 disk-drives mounted - label: OS value: CP/M - MP/M - BOS - label: POWER SUPPLY value: Built-in PSU (250-300w) - label: PERIPHERALS value: 64k RAM expansions, 5''1/4 and 8'' disk-drives, hard-disks (5,10,15 Mb), 8086 CPU, color video board, NTSC TV interface, graphic board, 8087 arithmetic coprocessor, real-time clock, 4 x RS232c interfa - label: PRICE value: |- Z80, 64k RAM, 2 x 5''1/4 (280k), RS232 interface, Basic = 4155 (France, 82)\ 80186, 256k RAM, 2 x 5''1/4 (560k), 5Mb hard-disk = 7415 (France, 82) tabs: - photos - adverts forum_thread: 158 photos: - title: COLOR PICTURE subtitle: '' text: Bad picture, but the only one in color so far... image: /media/museum/photos/itt_3030_2.jpg - title: HARD-DISK subtitle: '' text: A hard-disk is mounted to the right side of the ITT-3030. image: /media/museum/photos/itt_3030_3.gif - title: WOMAN... subtitle: '' text: A courageous woman working on an ITT-3030 with a printer and a hard-disk plugged to the machine. image: /media/museum/photos/itt_3030_woman_1.gif adverts: - title: 'FRENCH ADVERT #1' subtitle: '' text: |- "Doctors, it gonna cure your work" "ITT 3030, the absolute intelligence" image: /media/museum/pubs/itt_3030_pub-medecins_1.gif - title: 'FRENCH ADVERT #2' subtitle: '' text: |- "The new revolutionnary modular system" So you say... "ITT 3030, the absolute intelligence" Not less ! image: /media/museum/pubs/itt_3030_pub_1.gif oc_id: 146 source: url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230416215946/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=146 date: '2023-04-16' --- The ITT 3030 is a modular system with several options available. The original CPU for example is a Z80A, but a 8086 CPU board was available... More floppy disk drives and hard disks (5, 10 and 15 MB) can be added. The average access time of the hard-disks is 170ms, and the transfer rate 600 kb/s. It is also possible to add up to two 8" disk drives in addition to the original 5''1/4 disk-drives. They can be simple-sides/simple-density (256k) and are thus compatible with the IBM 3740 format, or double-sided/double-density (1024kb). Two monitors were proposed. A greenich monochrome one (80 x 24), and a color one being able to display 512 x 512 pixels and 16 colors. But these monitors could also be replaced with a TV. The ITT 3030 works under **CP/M**, **MP/M** or **BOS**. It was delivered with CP/M and user documentations. The following software were sold with the machine : CP/M, Microsoft Basic 5.0, Cobol, Fortran, Pascal (UCSB), Mailmerge and Supersport. Were also available : Calcstar, Wordstar, Datastar and many professional software (for doctors for example). The ITT-3030 was in fact conceived by Standard Electric Lorenz, a subsidiary of ITT RFA. About BOS operating system, **Ian Turner** (from U.K.) clarifies:\ Bos was an independent company who created a truly 'portable' (between different types of computers) operating system and sofware. They specialised in accounting packages but the OS was quite excellent and the name was the acronym of "Business Operating Software". They were highly successful until the early 1990's when they were bought by an insurance company and slowly migrated into an accounts software company running under Unix.\ I was a major developer and reseller for them and was instrumental in the link between Bos and ITT, who offered Bos as a package with their systems. The company still exists. More information from **Thomas Bourke**:\ BOS was originally developed by CAP Ltd who were \*the\* consulting company for IT in the 1970's - 80's - the eventually were taken over by a French Company with the resulting name of Cap Gemni Sogeti.\ Anyway, I digress, CAP didn't know what to do with BOS, so they effectively spun it of into a company called MPSL (Micro Process Software Ltd - if my memory serves).\ It sold BOS and a bunch of horizontal packages (payroll, accounting, word processing, spreadsheet et al) both direct and through a series of dealers throughout the (english) speaking world.\ Eventually MPSL (by now called BOS Software Ltd) was taken over by MISYS, a UK software/ services company. MISYS ran a VAN (value added network) for Insurance Brokers, hence the confusion with insurance companies - but they did and do other things as well - mainly for financial organisations (but hey, they're big, so they do lots of things!).\ An MBO bought the remaining pieces in March 1999 and TIS Software Ltd now owns BOS...