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title, categories, types, origins, years, cpus, params

title	categories	types	origins	years	cpus	params
AI Electronics ABC 26	Computers	Professional Computer	Japan	1982	Zilog Z80A	name image company company_name specs tabs photos adverts comments oc_id source ABC 26 /media/museum/photos/ai-electronics_abc26_color_1.jpg /companies/ai-electronics AI Electronics label value NAME ABC 26 label value MANUFACTURER AI Electronics label value TYPE Professional Computer label value ORIGIN Japan label value YEAR 1982 label value KEYBOARD Mechanical QWERTY / AZERTY keyboard\ 16 function keys and numeric keypad label value CPU Zilog Z80A label value SPEED 4 Mhz label value CO-PROCESSOR Arithmetic processor label value RAM 64 kb (up to 1Mb) label value ROM 4 kb (monitor) label value TEXT MODES 80 x 24 label value GRAPHIC MODES 640 x 288 and 640 x 576 optional (PLOT 10 compatible) label value COLORS monochrome (12'' green monitor) label value I/O PORTS 2 x serial ports - 2 x parallel ports x 1 GP-IB (IEEE 488) port label value BUILT IN MEDIA ABC-26 : 2 x 8'' disk-drives (1,2Mb each) label value OS Dosket, CP/M & M/PM label value POWER SUPPLY PSU built-in label value PERIPHERALS external disk-drives, 10Mb and 20Mb Winchester hard-disk photos adverts title subtitle text image ABC-26 /media/museum/photos/ai_electronics_abc26_2.jpg title subtitle text image FRENCH ADVERT /media/museum/pubs/ai_electronics_abc24_pub.jpg title subtitle text image FRENCH ADVERT (JAN. 1981) /media/museum/pubs/ai-electronics_abc26_pub-fr_2.png author date text JAN LE ROUX (SOUTH AFRICA) Wednesday 22nd February 2017 I have an ABC-26 Ai Electronics 8.5 inch floppy drive computer with keyboard still in working condition that I am interested in selling. The computer was bought new by my wife but we now only use notepads. Does anyone have any idea of the value? 512 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230531224515/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=512 2023-05-31

The 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, 21, 22, 23, 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.