website/content/museum/open-university-uk-pt501.md

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

title	categories	types	origins	years	cpus	params
OPEN UNIVERSITY, UK PT501	Computers	Home Computer	United Kingdom	1979	Intel	name image company company_name specs comments oc_id source PT501 /media/museum/photos/hektor_pt501_system_1.jpg /companies/open-university-uk OPEN UNIVERSITY, UK label value NAME PT501 label value MANUFACTURER Open University, UK label value TYPE Home Computer label value ORIGIN United Kingdom label value YEAR 1979 label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE Monitor label value KEYBOARD 21 keys Hexadecimal + function keys label value CPU Intel label value SPEED Unknown label value RAM 128 byte? (holded into the 8049) label value ROM Unknown label value TEXT MODES 8-digit Led display label value I/O PORTS None label value POWER SUPPLY External AC adaptor label value PRICE Unknown author date text roger baldwin (UK) Tuesday 26th November 2013 I have a PT501 in the original box with the manual, any idea what this would be worth? thanks author date text JW Saturday 30th March 2013 I used one of these too (when I was about 10!) I seem to recall this board also had a temperature sensor input. Didn''t do me any harm - I''m now a software engineer. 817 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230128073542/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=817 2023-01-28

Virtually no information about this training board that was provided, prior to the Hektor PT602 with a Open University course called 'Microprocessors and Product Development - a course for managers'.

The choice of the microprocessor is a bit surprising as the 8049 was more a microcontroller than a true microprocessor. Later, the 8049 will be commonly found inside dot-matrix and PC keyboards.

More info needed!

Thanks to Chris Millard for the picture.