website/content/museum/welect-80-2.md

---
title: WELECT 80.2
categories:
- Computers
types:
- Professional Computer
origins:
- France
years:
- '1982'
cpus:
- Zilog Z80A
params:
  name: '80.2'
  image: /media/museum/photos/welect_80-2_1.jpg
  company: /companies/welect
  company_name: WELECT
  specs:
  - label: NAME
    value: '80.2'
  - label: MANUFACTURER
    value: WELECT
  - label: TYPE
    value: Professional Computer
  - label: ORIGIN
    value: France
  - label: YEAR
    value: '1982'
  - label: KEYBOARD
    value: Full-stroke keyboard with function keys and separated numeric keypad
  - label: CPU
    value: Zilog Z80A
  - label: SPEED
    value: 4 MHz
  - label: RAM
    value: 128 KB (up to 256 KB)
  - label: ROM
    value: 2 KB
  - label: TEXT MODES
    value: 80 x 25
  - label: GRAPHIC MODES
    value: Unknown
  - label: COLORS
    value: monochrom
  - label: SOUND
    value: Unknown
  - label: I/O PORTS
    value: Bus 50B Mistek
  - label: BUILT IN MEDIA
    value: Two 8'' disk-drives
  - label: OS
    value: CP/M or MP/M
  - label: POWER SUPPLY
    value: PSU built-in
  - label: PRICE
    value: |-
      Multi-Tap model: $7,890\
      Prof model: $10,980
  tabs:
  - photos
  - adverts
  photos:
  - title: KEYBOARD
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: WELECT 80-2 BOOT SCREEN
    subtitle: ''
    text: Thanks to RomaX ManiaX for this picture
    image: null
  - title: WELECT IN A MUSEUM
    subtitle: ''
    text: |-
      This is the Welect 80-2 shown at the Lewarde Mining History Center in France.

      Picture courtesy of Lewarde Mining History Center
    image: null
  - title: WELECT 80-2 USED IN METEO CENTER
    subtitle: ''
    text: |-
      Press article from 1982:\
      Pierre Fradin and Jean-Pierre Sigaud in front of the Welect 80 microcomputer nicknamed TRITON. This computer operated under CPM with 8 inch floppy disks. Basic and Pascal languages ​​were used to develop the programs. Vichy was the second station equipped with a microcomputer after Auxerre, in 1981.
    image: null
  adverts:
  - title: FRENCH ADVERT (DEC. 1982)
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: FRENCH ADVERT (FEB. 1983)
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: FRENCH ADVERT (APRIL 1984)
    subtitle: ''
    text: from Micro-Systèmes magazine (N°41)
    image: null
  - title: FRENCH ADVERT (SEPTEMBER 1983)
    subtitle: ''
    text: |-
      from Micro-Systèmes magazine (N°34)\
      The advert is for the Welect line of products, but the system pictured is not a W80.2
    image: null
  comments:
  - author: BARROO Paul-Marie (FRANCE)
    date: Friday 8th November 2019
    text: |-
      I used this WELECT with 8p diskettes, when I was in this entreprise H.B.N.P.C. (Houillères du Bassin Nord Pas de Calais) in north of France, in 1983 during 2 or 3 years ago until the first Pc clone arrive …\
      using DATASTAR WORDSTAR …\
      the first professional computer i used !
  - author: Sylvain (France)
    date: Wednesday 1st June 2005
    text: Because the "computer of the day" is selected randomly -)
  - author: George (Fl)
    date: Tuesday 31st May 2005
    text: If little is known about the 80.2, then why is it the computer of the day?
  oc_id: 256
  source:
    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230416215948/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=256
    date: '2023-04-16'
---

Little information available about this professional computer running CP/M. Help wecome to know more about this system.

It seems that the Welect 80-2 was produced in France at the beginning of the 80s. It's a professional computer running CP/M with two built-in 8'' floppy disk drives. An optional hard disk (5 or 10 mb) could be connected.

Among the few sources that we have found about this computer, we know that some models still used in 1988 ran CP/M 3.1 as their operating system.

The Welect 80-2, one of the few CP/M based french computer, was mainly sold to french administrations and big companies would could afford it as it was quite expensive compared to its foreign competitors.

We know so far that the Welect 80-2 was used by:\
\- La Rochelle CRTS (fisheries data processing center)\
\- Vichy Charmeil meteo station\
\- Douai coal mines administration

The computer was also distributed under the OGIP label.

<table> <tr> <td></td> <td>We need more info about this computer ! If you designed, used, or have more info about this system, please send us pictures or anything you might find useful.</td> <td></td> </tr> </table>