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title: AI Electronics ABC 24
categories:
- Computers
types:
- Professional Computer
origins:
- Japan
years:
- '1979'
cpus:
- Zilog Z80A
params:
name: ABC 24
image: /media/museum/photos/ai_electronics_abc24_1.jpg
company: /companies/ai-electronics
company_name: AI Electronics
specs:
- label: NAME
value: ABC 24
- label: MANUFACTURER
value: AI Electronics
- label: TYPE
value: Professional Computer
- label: ORIGIN
value: Japan
- label: YEAR
value: ? 1979
- label: KEYBOARD
value: |-
Mechanical QWERTY / AZERTY keyboard\
16 function keys and numeric keypad
- label: CPU
value: Zilog Z80A
- label: SPEED
value: 4 Mhz
- label: CO-PROCESSOR
value: Arithmetic processor
- label: RAM
value: 64 kb (up to 1Mb)
- label: ROM
value: 4 kb (monitor)
- label: TEXT MODES
value: 80 x 24
- label: GRAPHIC MODES
value: 640 x 288 optional (PLOT 10 compatible)
- label: COLORS
value: monochrome (12'' green monitor)
- label: I/O PORTS
value: 2 x serial ports - 2 x parallel ports x 1 GP-IB (IEEE 488) port
- label: BUILT IN MEDIA
value: 2 x 5''1/4 disk-drives (320k each)
- label: OS
value: Dosket, CP/M & M/PM
- label: POWER SUPPLY
value: PSU built-in
- label: PERIPHERALS
value: external disk-drives, 10Mb and 20Mb Winchester hard-disk
tabs:
- adverts
- links
forum_thread: 53
adverts:
- title: FRENCH ADVERTISEMENT
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/pubs/ai_electronics_abc24_pub.jpg
links:
- title: Gaby's Homepage für CP/M und Computergeschichte
url: http://www.gaby.de/abc.htm
text: This site features infos and an interesting article about the ABC-24
oc_id: 34
source:
url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230603204804/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=34
date: '2023-06-03'
---
The ABC-24 and [ABC-26](/museum/ai-electronics-abc-26/) could run up to 8 programs simultaneously and could manage 7 work-stations under M/PM (according to the advertisement). they has a real-time clock and 96 graphic symbols built-in.
There were several models : [20](/museum/ai-electronics-abc-20/), 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and [26](/museum/ai-electronics-abc-26/), mostly differentiated by their 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 [www.gaby.de](http://www.gaby.de).*