---
title: AXEL AX-25
categories:
- Computers
types:
- Professional Computer
origins:
- France
years:
- '1984'
cpus:
- Intel 8088
params:
  name: AX-25
  company: /companies/axel
  company_name: AXEL
  specs:
  - label: NAME
    value: AX-25
  - label: MANUFACTURER
    value: Axel
  - label: TYPE
    value: Professional Computer
  - label: ORIGIN
    value: France
  - label: YEAR
    value: '1984'
  - label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE
    value: M Basic (on disk)
  - label: KEYBOARD
    value: |-
      AZERTY full-stroke keyboard with separated numeric keypad\
      8 programmable function keys on the monitor !
  - label: CPU
    value: Intel 8088
  - label: SPEED
    value: 8 Mhz
  - label: RAM
    value: 128 KB (up to 1 MB)
  - label: ROM
    value: Unknown
  - label: TEXT MODES
    value: 24 x 80
  - label: GRAPHIC MODES
    value: 640 x 288 (optional graphic card)
  - label: COLORS
    value: No (12'' monochrome monitor)
  - label: SIZE / WEIGHT
    value: 42 x 51 38 cm
  - label: I/O PORTS
    value: Parallel/Centronics, RS232c (optional), 5 x 8-bit ISA extension slots
  - label: BUILT IN MEDIA
    value: |-
      AX-25A : 2 x 5''1/4 disk-drives (2,7Mb each)\
      AX-25B : 1 x 5''1/4 disk-drive and 1 hard-drive (10Mb)
  - label: OS
    value: MS DOS (CP/M 86 in option)
  - label: POWER SUPPLY
    value: Built-in PSU / 70w
  - label: PERIPHERALS
    value: Printers, graphic card
  - label: PRICE
    value: |-
      AX-25A : 7012 (France, 1984)\
      AX-25B : 8080 (France, 1984)
  comments:
  - author: i_like_water2001@yahoo.com (hialeah)
    date: Tuesday 10th May 2005
    text: OMG!!!!!11 THIS IS THE COOLEST COMPUTER EVER!!
  oc_id: 82
  source:
    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20221203223559/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=82
    date: '2022-12-03'
---

This french computer has some IBM PC compatibility. It can read PC disks with a special software and has ISA expansion slots. But it's not a real PC compatible machine.\
It is more powerful than its little brother, the [AX-20](/museum/axel-ax-20/). But historicaly, the AX-25 was conceived before the AX-20, though it was marketed later.

Two models were available : the AX-25A with two 5"1/4 disk drives and the AX-25B with one 5"1/4 disk drive and a hard disk (10 MB).

The disk capacity is quite impressive for its time: 2,7Mb. The drive uses special 192 TPI disks and was conceived by Drivetec (USA). Technically, there a kind of mix between hard-disks and classic floppy drives.

The AX-25 is also quite fast with its clock-rate at 8 Mhz.

The AX-25 is sold with a text editor built-in: AED. It is a pictogram driven software and you could even use a mouse with it, just like with the brand new [Macintosh](/museum/apple-macintosh/) (1984). If you hadn't a mouse, you could use the 8 function keys which were directly mounted on the monitor, at the bottom of the screen !

MicroSoft Basic, MicroSoft Word, Multiplan and Micropro software (including Wordstar) were available for this machine. The main operating system was MS-DOS but CP/M 86 was also possible as an option. M Basic was sold with the system, but Business Basic, Pascal, Fortran, Cobol and C were also available.