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AI Electronics ABC 26

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Professional Computer

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1982

Zilog Z80A

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ABC 26

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AI Electronics

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NAME	ABC 26

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MANUFACTURER	AI Electronics

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TYPE	Professional Computer

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ORIGIN	Japan

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YEAR	1982

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KEYBOARD	Mechanical QWERTY / AZERTY keyboard\ 16 function keys and numeric keypad

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CPU	Zilog Z80A

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SPEED	4 Mhz

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CO-PROCESSOR	Arithmetic processor

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RAM	64 kb (up to 1Mb)

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ROM	4 kb (monitor)

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TEXT MODES	80 x 24

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GRAPHIC MODES	640 x 288 and 640 x 576 optional (PLOT 10 compatible)

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COLORS	monochrome (12'' green monitor)

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I/O PORTS	2 x serial ports - 2 x parallel ports x 1 GP-IB (IEEE 488) port

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BUILT IN MEDIA	ABC-26 : 2 x 8'' disk-drives (1,2Mb each)

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OS	Dosket, CP/M & M/PM

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POWER SUPPLY	PSU built-in

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PERIPHERALS	external disk-drives, 10Mb and 20Mb Winchester hard-disk

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FRENCH ADVERT (JAN. 1981)			/media/museum/pubs/ai-electronics_abc26_pub-fr_2.png

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The ABC-24 and ABC-26 could run up to 8 programs simultaneously and couls manage 7 workstations under M/PM (according to the advertisement). they had a real-time clock and 96 graphic symbols built-in.

There were several models : 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 26, mostly differentiated by the storage capacities...
The 2x Models were the successors of the ABC 10, which had a digital tape auxillary memory, supplied with DOSKET-T.

AI DOSKET is the AI Electronics Operating System. A lot of languages were developed for these computers: MBasic, CBasic, Basic, Pascal, Cobol80, PL/3, Fortran IV and assembler.

Picture courtesy of Computer Modell Katalog.

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