--- title: BASF 7100 categories: - Computers types: - Professional Computer origins: - Germany years: - '1982' cpus: - Z80A params: name: '7100' image: /media/museum/photos/basf_7120_1s.jpg logo: /media/museum/logos/basf_7100_logo.gif company: /companies/basf company_name: BASF specs: - label: NAME value: '7100' - label: MANUFACTURER value: BASF - label: TYPE value: Professional Computer - label: ORIGIN value: Germany - label: YEAR value: '1982' - label: END OF PRODUCTION value: unknown - label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE value: unknown - label: KEYBOARD value: mechanical keyboard - label: CPU value: Z80A - label: SPEED value: 4 MHz - label: RAM value: 64 KB - label: ROM value: 16 KB - label: TEXT MODES value: 24 rows of 80 characters with 4 types of highlighting in any combination - label: COLORS value: No (monochrome built-in display) - label: SOUND value: unknown - label: SIZE / WEIGHT value: unknown - label: I/O PORTS value: unknown - label: BUILT IN MEDIA value: three 5 1/4 inch floppy disk drives, single sided, double density (162 KB) - label: OS value: BASF Operating System (including BASIC) and CP/M 2.2 - label: POWER SUPPLY value: Built-in power supply - label: PRICE value: 16000 DM (Germany, 1982) tabs: - docs docs: - title: BASF 7120 BASIC MANUAL url: https://archive.org/details/BASFSystem7100Basic/page/n1/mode/2up cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/basf_7100_user-doc.jpg text: |- [**BASF 7120 BASIC MANUAL**](https://archive.org/details/BASFSystem7100Basic/page/n1/mode/2up)written by BASF  compiled/archived by Heca Systems\  type of document : PDF\  source : [Heca Systems](http://www.heca.be) comments: - author: Günther (Austria) date: Tuesday 18th August 2020 text: Hi, does anybody have boot disks for this system (CP/M or BASIC)? - author: Willem Matthijs (België) date: Sunday 22nd March 2020 text: |- Hi Norbert, could you please contact me?\ i am restoring a BASF 7130 at the moment and I have some questions along the way. Thanks, my email : wimmatthijs@gmail.com - author: Norbert (Germany) date: Monday 25th November 2019 text: |- The model shown is a BASF7120$ my father was chief developer on this system at BASF in Ludwigshafen$ we had one of these computers at home. The computer was based on a DigiLog (USA) Personal Computer, which had an additional printer built in (the paper came out on the top), but was to faulty to be sold (power supply, monitor control, mechanical construction and more.). The operating system was an "Enhanced commercial BASIC" interpreter and/or an Assembler\ Later on, a CP/M version was released\ The official price was 16.000 DM\ The CPU frequency was 4.000 MHz\ The memory was 64 kByte + FDC (don''t know how much RAM was impemented there)\ The production ended 1987, after a press release of the "SPIEGEL" magazine and legal trials claimed that due to the lack of a Parity Bit in the Memory, the computer was too unsafe for serious applications.\ (However, in almost 10 years of use and programming of that computer I personally never experienced any(!) accidental data alteration). It had 2 CPUs (Z80A) which were able to operate independently$ some programs used it for parallel processing(!).\ One of them was part of the FDC (Floppy Disk Control), the upper of the three PCBs which were found inside. Ports: It had a Centronics parallel port and a V.24 / RS232 port at the back. The rocker switches on the right side of the keyboard were used to preset programs (rarely used), as well as the switch banks (DIL-Switches) on the rear side of the computer. If you are interested in more information, please feel free to contact me. - author: Willem Matthijs (België) date: Sunday 8th September 2019 text: |- I acquired the 7130 version of this computer built in 1982.\ It seems like this one was a special version with a hard disk on it.\ It was used to bookkeeping for a winery, i acquired it with an AZERTY French keyboard in the south of France.\ It has a ''pattent pending'' hard disk controller, morst boards are by digi-logic, they keyboard is by Key-tronic corp.\ And yes, also my cataract, which will be taken care of soon - author: Duuuddddd (wefefwefw) date: Sunday 3rd April 2016 text: It looks like a mirowave XD - author: Shane Hill (Austin, TX USA) date: Monday 14th February 2011 text: This particular model in the image, as well as some other computer images I have seen on the site - have screens that have developed "cataracts." For those of you with older computers, google CRT cataracts. It''s actually pretty easy to repair. -Shane 1/14/11 oc_id: 1301 source: url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230603020201/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1301 date: '2023-06-03' --- The BASF 7000 systems are professional computers from Germany. There were several models in the 7000 serie. The model shown is a BASF 7120. The computer was based on a DigiLog (USA) Personal Computer (Microterm II Intelligent Terminal), which had an additional printer built in (the paper came out on the top), but was to faulty to be sold (power supply, monitor control, mechanical construction and more.). The operating system was an "Enhanced commercial BASIC" interpreter and/or an Assembler. .Later on, a CP/M version was released. The CPU frequency was 4.000 MHz and the memory was 64 kByte + FDC. The production ended 1987, after a press release of the "SPIEGEL" magazine and legal trials claimed that due to the lack of a Parity Bit in the Memory, the computer was too unsafe for serious applications. It had 2 CPUs (Z80A) which were able to operate independently and some programs used it for parallel processing(!). One of them was part of the FDC (Floppy Disk Control), the upper of the three PCBs which were found inside. It had a Centronics parallel port and a V.24 / RS232 port at the back. The rocker switches on the right side of the keyboard were used to preset programs (rarely used), as well as the switch banks (DIL-Switches) on the rear side of the computer.
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