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title: AI Electronics ABC 26
categories:
- Computers
types:
- Professional Computer
origins:
- Japan
years:
- '1982'
cpus:
- Zilog Z80A
params:
name: ABC 26
image: /media/museum/photos/ai-electronics_abc26_color_1.jpg
company: /companies/ai-electronics
company_name: AI Electronics
specs:
- label: NAME
value: ABC 26
- label: MANUFACTURER
value: AI Electronics
- label: TYPE
value: Professional Computer
- label: ORIGIN
value: Japan
- label: YEAR
value: '1982'
- 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 and 640 x 576 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: 'ABC-26 : 2 x 8'''' disk-drives (1,2Mb 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:
- photos
- adverts
forum_thread: 506
photos:
- title: ABC-26
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/photos/ai_electronics_abc26_2.jpg
adverts:
- title: FRENCH ADVERT
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/pubs/ai_electronics_abc24_pub.jpg
- title: FRENCH ADVERT (JAN. 1981)
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/pubs/ai-electronics_abc26_pub-fr_2.png
oc_id: 512
source:
url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230531224515/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=512
date: '2023-05-31'
---
The [ABC-24](/museum/ai-electronics-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](/museum/ai-electronics-abc-20/), 21, 22, 23, [24](/museum/ai-electronics-abc-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](http://home.t-online.de/home/cyrill.cmk/)*.