--- title: Luxor ABC 800 Series categories: - Computers types: - Professional Computer origins: - Sweden years: - '1981' cpus: - Z 80 params: name: ABC 800 Series company: /companies/luxor company_name: Luxor specs: - label: NAME value: ABC 800 Series - label: MANUFACTURER value: Luxor - label: TYPE value: Professional Computer - label: ORIGIN value: Sweden - label: YEAR value: '1981' - label: KEYBOARD value: Full-stroke with function keys and numeric keypad - label: CPU value: Z 80 - label: SPEED value: 3 MHz - label: RAM value: 32 kb - label: ROM value: 32 kb - label: TEXT MODES value: 40 x 24 / 80 x 24 - label: GRAPHIC MODES value: 240 x 240 dots in four out of eight possible colours - label: COLORS value: Monochrome or colour monitor - label: SOUND value: 1 channel - label: I/O PORTS value: 2 x RS232, expansion bus slot - label: BUILT IN MEDIA value: None - label: OS value: Unknown - label: POWER SUPPLY value: Built-in power supply unit - label: PERIPHERALS value: Expansion unit, any combination of 5 1/4 tabs: - photos - hardware - emulators - links photos: - title: LARGE VIEW subtitle: '' text: With the Luxor monochrome monitor image: null - title: COMPLETE SYSTEM subtitle: '' text: With ABC 832 dual 5"1/4 floppy disc drive. image: null - title: 'MAIN UNIT #1' subtitle: '' text: '' image: null - title: 'MAIN UNIT #2' subtitle: '' text: '' image: null - title: KEYBOARD CLOSE-UP subtitle: '' text: Swedish version image: null - title: REAR SIDE subtitle: '' text: |- **(1)** Video and power supply connector. The power is supplied by the monitor\ **(2)** Dual serial port\ **(3)** Tape recorder DIN plug\ **(4)** Floppy drive unit controller card\ **(5)** Reset switch image: null - title: INSIDE subtitle: '' text: |- The electronic part is made of 3 cards:\ • CPU/RAM/ROM card, the largest one,\ • Text Video card, at right,\ • Graphics video card, at center. **(1)** 32 KB main RAM chips (16x4116)\ **(2)** 32 KB ROM chips (8x2732 EPROM's)\ **(3)** 16 KB graphics video RAM chips (32x2114). Will be replaced later with 16x4116\ **(4)** 6845 video CRT controller (same as first IBM PC mono & colour cards)\ **(5)** Power regulators box, the power is supplied by the monitor\ **(6)** Audio amplifier and loudspeaker\ **(7)** Z80A processor. Most of the Z80 family chips came from Sharp image: null - title: THE LUXOR ABC 802 subtitle: '' text: The ABC 802 can run either under CP/M or UFD-DOS (User File Directory DOS, the OS from Luxor). It appears to have the same characteristics than the 800. The ABC 802 was followed by the ABC 806 image: null - title: THE LUXOR ABC 806 subtitle: '' text: The ABC 806 had 192 KB RAM which could be used as a RAM DISK. image: null - title: LUXOR MANUALS subtitle: '' text: '' image: null hardware: - title: 'FLOPPY DISC UNITS #1' subtitle: '' text: Two floppy drive unit were sold, one with Micropolis drives (left), the second with more recent Canon drives. image: null - title: 'FLOPPY DISC UNITS #2' subtitle: '' text: Micropolis (right) and Canon drives. image: null emulators: - title: ABC 80 Emulator for MSDOS url: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~exon platform: Windows text: '' - title: MESS url: http://www.mess.org platform: Multiplatform text: MESS also emulates the ABC-800 Serie computers links: - title: Lars Christoffersson page url: http://user.tninet.se/~lmx072e/abc800/ text: Lot's of pictures of the ABC 800 series computers and it's accessories - title: Luxor ABC 800 homepage url: http://www.devili.iki.fi/Computers/Luxor/index.en.html text: Technical information and documentation for Luxor ABC800 serie - title: Luxor datorer AB url: http://www.hultsfred.org/luxor.htm text: Complete information about Luxor systems - title: Rikard's ABC80 links url: http://www.etek.chalmers.se/~e7rikard/abc80.html text: Ressource links comments: - author: BZ (Sweden) date: Wednesday 13rd April 2011 text: Wow those were the days. We had a network in school. One minicomputer the ABC 9000 from Luxor and ABC800 - ABC 1600 as terminals. Some of the ABC:s had a cool feature when "wordprocessing" you could rotate the screen 90 degrees and the screen was WYSIWYG of a portrait-A4. UNIX operating system and vi for the wordprocessing. For programming C, no ++ and no $. The 90 degree screen was in a heavy duty metal design..... nevertriedto sharpen any knives thou - author: Gábor Képes (Hungary) date: Wednesday 12th November 2003 text: |- Hello!\ I have a Butler Datamat computer at home. It is a machine from Denmark.\ Is this a clone of the ABC-800? Or not?\ Please give me more info! Best wishes,\ Gabor oc_id: 357 source: url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230606183635/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=357 date: '2023-06-06' --- This computer is the successor of the [Luxor ABC 80](/museum/luxor-abc-80/) There were several successors to the ABC800, most notably the ABC802 with built-in small 9" monitor and the ABC806 with more memory and more advanced 512x240x16 graphics. The ABC 800 series was also sold by **Facit** under the **DTC** (DeskTop Computer) name, in a darker enclosure. --- Anonymous contribution:\ The Luxor I owned was a Luxor 802 And it didn't look like the one on the picture. The monitor was smalller, made in a metall thick enough to build a (small) house on. The CPU and the monitor was in one piece. The keyboard was connected on the back of the Monitor. The floppy-unit was also very stable I used it as a stepladder.\ OS consisted of a disk in the left 5.25" floppy. Start by "system" exit with "byebye" (uncertain).\ Very little sound, nice, and tidy. I had 2 with the original RS232 Matrisprinter. You could sharpen a knife on the chassis if you wanted.