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title	categories	types	origins	years	cpus	params
Oric TELESTRAT	Computers	Home Computer	France	1986	MOS 6502	name image company company_name specs tabs forum_thread photos adverts hardware screenshots links oc_id source TELESTRAT /media/museum/photos/oric_telestrat_2.jpg /companies/oric Oric label value NAME TELESTRAT label value MANUFACTURER Oric label value TYPE Home Computer label value ORIGIN France label value YEAR 1986 label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE None (Basic on cartridge) label value KEYBOARD AZERTY mechanical keyboard\ 57 keys label value CPU MOS 6502 label value SPEED 1 Mhz label value RAM 64 kb label value ROM 48 kb label value TEXT MODES 40 x 28 label value GRAPHIC MODES 240 x 200 label value COLORS 8 label value SOUND AY-3-8912 chipset; 3 channels, 8 octaves label value SIZE / WEIGHT 34,8 x 26 x 7,1 cm label value I/O PORTS RGB video output (Scart), Parallel / Centronics port, Serial RS232s port, 2 Joystick sockets (Atari standard), Tape-recorder, Disk-drive port, Midi sockets, Expansion port (same as Atmos), Minitel plug (serial 1200/75 bauds) label value BUILT IN MEDIA Disk-drive controller built-in, for Microdisc 3'' disk drive label value OS Stratsed (Sedoric compatible) label value PERIPHERALS Diskdrive, printers, cartridges, ... label value PRICE 608 (France, september 86)\ 907 with color monitor (France, september 86) photos adverts hardware software links 245 title subtitle text image SIDE VIEW /media/museum/photos/oric_telestrat.jpg title subtitle text image COMPLETE CONFIGURATION A Telestrat working and linked to a Minitel (french videotext terminal) and with its Microdisc disk-drive. /media/museum/photos/oric_telestrat_complet.jpg title subtitle text image IN ACTION... A Telestrat with 2 catridges plugged-in (Hyper Basic and Telematic) and emulating a videotext display. /media/museum/photos/oric_telestrat_complet2.jpg title subtitle text image FRENCH ADVERT. /media/museum/pubs/oric_telestrat_pub1a.jpg title subtitle text image MICRODISC 3'' disk-drive (400k) 3" Double-sided disk drive with a capacity of 400k\ Could load 20k in 1 seconde, which was quite fast at that time. The name of the operating system was Stratsed and was somehow compatible with the Sedoric (Atmos OS) The disk controller was built-in the Telestrat, thus only "slave" disk drives had to be bought (1800fr each in 86). /media/museum/hardware/oric_telestrat_microdisc.jpg title subtitle text image TELEMATIC A videotext page /media/museum/software/oric_telestrat_microsys_ss.gif title subtitle text image TELEMATIC WORK A telematic site structure tree /media/museum/software/oric_telestrat_arbo_ss.gif title subtitle text image TELEMATIC WORK Transmission of the pages to the server /media/museum/software/oric_telestrat_instuc_ss.gif title url text Pinky http://www.troude.com/Pinky/Index.html-ssi History of server powered by a Telestrat ! With pix (french) 235 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230528093011/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=235 2023-05-28

The Oric Telestrat is the successor of the Oric 1 and Oric Atmos with which it is compatible. It was launched some months after Oric was bought by Euréka, a French company in 1985.

It was designed especially for telecommunications, like the Goupil 2, the Thomson TO-9+ or the Exeltel. It was designed to be used with the Minitel (French videotext terminal): it has a special ROM (8 KB) enabling the Telestrat to act as a videotext server.

A 3" floppy disk drive was available (400 KB) which run under StradSED (the Oric operating system, compatible with the old Oric DOS).

Several ROM cartridges were developed for this machine: Midi software (unreleased), Hyper Basic (compiled basic), Telematic Basic (designed for telecommunications), etc...