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TRANSAM Tuscan S-100	Computers	Professional Computer	United Kingdom	1980	Z80-A	name company company_name specs comments oc_id source Tuscan S-100 /companies/transam TRANSAM label value NAME Tuscan S-100 label value MANUFACTURER Transam label value TYPE Professional Computer label value ORIGIN United Kingdom label value YEAR June 1980 label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE None label value KEYBOARD Full stroke 66 keys - a numeric keypad location was provided label value CPU Z80-A label value SPEED 2 or 4 MHz. label value CO-PROCESSOR None label value RAM 8 KB up to 64 KB label value ROM 8 KB up to 16 KB label value TEXT MODES 64 chars. x 16 lines label value GRAPHIC MODES Depends on the graphic video board used label value COLORS Monochrome label value I/O PORTS Unknown label value BUILT IN MEDIA 1 or 2 x 5'' 190 KB floppy disc drives label value OS CP/M label value POWER SUPPLY Built-in power supply unit label value PERIPHERALS All the range of S-100 boerds label value PRICE 24 KB RAM, single floppy disc: £1200\ 60 KB RAM, dual floppy disc: £1700 author date text Lyndon (UK) Friday 17th December 2004 Hi All, I have a Transam Tuscan S100 with 5.25" drives, a digittalker S100 bus card and 60k memory card. My system does boot from the CP/M 2.2 disk however there is a faulty sector so all I get is CP/M 2.2 boot message and the cursor comes back. Typing anything crashes it. Any one have a working CP/M 2.2 Boot disk for a Tuscan I can have a copy of?\ I also have original manual with all circuit diagrams and description of how the hardware works. I will scan this in and make a PDF of it early 2005 and place it on my site for download. author date text John (UK) Tuesday 14th December 2004 Hi, I have a series of Practical Computing magazines frm July 1980 written by the designer of this machine: http://www.vintagecomputers.freeserve.co.uk/mags/praccomp/covers.htm One day I will scan them in ;-) I also have one of these machines, and would like to hear from other owners, so please e-mail me. Thanks,\ John 809 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230328121401/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=809 2023-03-28

Transam was based in London and have moved on from their original business as a manufacturer of cheap hobby-type boards to computers design in 1982.

The main unit of the Tuscan computer had a ten-slot S-100 backplane and integral single or dual floppy disk drives. The system came with a CPU board based around the Z80 processor, a video board with composite and UHF TV video outputs, and a memory board holding 8 KB of RAM and 8 KB of Monitor ROM.

Several additional board could expand the system to 64 KB of RAM, 16 KB of ROM (including a 8 KB BASIC), and add interfaces or graphic capabilities as well.

Transam, trough their TCL subsidiary was also well known for implementation of high level languages, especially PASCAL. These and others could be used on this computer.

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.