website/content/museum/luxor-abc-800-series.md

---
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.

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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.