website/content/museum/oric-telestrat.md

---
title: Oric TELESTRAT
categories:
- Computers
types:
- Home Computer
origins:
- France
years:
- '1986'
cpus:
- MOS 6502
params:
  name: TELESTRAT
  image: /media/museum/photos/oric_telestrat_2.jpg
  company: /companies/oric
  company_name: Oric
  specs:
  - label: NAME
    value: TELESTRAT
  - label: MANUFACTURER
    value: Oric
  - label: TYPE
    value: Home Computer
  - label: ORIGIN
    value: France
  - label: YEAR
    value: '1986'
  - label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE
    value: None (Basic on cartridge)
  - label: KEYBOARD
    value: |-
      AZERTY mechanical keyboard\
      57 keys
  - label: CPU
    value: MOS 6502
  - label: SPEED
    value: 1 Mhz
  - label: RAM
    value: 64 kb
  - label: ROM
    value: 48 kb
  - label: TEXT MODES
    value: 40 x 28
  - label: GRAPHIC MODES
    value: 240 x 200
  - label: COLORS
    value: '8'
  - label: SOUND
    value: AY-3-8912 chipset; 3 channels, 8 octaves
  - label: SIZE / WEIGHT
    value: 34,8 x 26 x 7,1 cm
  - label: I/O PORTS
    value: 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: BUILT IN MEDIA
    value: Disk-drive controller built-in, for Microdisc 3'' disk drive
  - label: OS
    value: Stratsed (Sedoric compatible)
  - label: PERIPHERALS
    value: Diskdrive, printers, cartridges, ...
  - label: PRICE
    value: |-
      608 (France, september 86)\
      907 with color monitor (France, september 86)
  tabs:
  - photos
  - adverts
  - hardware
  - software
  - links
  photos:
  - title: SIDE VIEW
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/photos/oric_telestrat.jpg
  - title: COMPLETE CONFIGURATION
    subtitle: ''
    text: A Telestrat working and linked to a Minitel (french videotext terminal) and with its Microdisc disk-drive.
    image: /media/museum/photos/oric_telestrat_complet.jpg
  - title: IN ACTION...
    subtitle: ''
    text: A Telestrat with 2 catridges plugged-in (Hyper Basic and Telematic) and emulating a videotext display.
    image: /media/museum/photos/oric_telestrat_complet2.jpg
  adverts:
  - title: FRENCH ADVERT.
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/pubs/oric_telestrat_pub1a.jpg
  hardware:
  - title: MICRODISC
    subtitle: 3'' disk-drive (400k)
    text: |-
      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).
    image: /media/museum/hardware/oric_telestrat_microdisc.jpg
  screenshots:
  - title: TELEMATIC
    subtitle: A videotext page
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/oric_telestrat_microsys_ss.gif
  - title: TELEMATIC WORK
    subtitle: A telematic site structure tree
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/oric_telestrat_arbo_ss.gif
  - title: TELEMATIC WORK
    subtitle: Transmission of the pages to the server
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/oric_telestrat_instuc_ss.gif
  links:
  - title: Pinky
    url: http://www.troude.com/Pinky/Index.html-ssi
    text: History of server powered by a Telestrat ! With pix (french)
  comments:
  - author: Dietmar Belloff (Germany)
    date: Monday 21st May 2007
    text: This is a nice site with great work! As an longtime Oric-User and being in the know of some details I have to correct the Name of the DOS used by the Oric Telestrat Computer. It is not named StradSED but SEDOric and was available for the old Orics as an addon as well. Furheron, the Telestrat was identical to the Atmos in ROM (V1.1). I could state this since I played with it at Frankfurt Home Comuter Fair in 1985 and its got the same HIRES command bug as Oric-1 and Atmos inside. One of the developers was not amused as he saw me discovering this bug:)
  oc_id: 235
  source:
    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230528093011/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=235
    date: '2023-05-28'
---

The Oric Telestrat is the successor of the [Oric 1](/museum/oric-1/) and [Oric Atmos](/museum/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](/museum/smt-goupil-2/), the [Thomson TO-9+](/museum/thomson-to-9-plus/) or the [Exeltel](/museum/exelvision-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...