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EAGLE COMPUTERS INC. Eagle PC	Computers	Professional Computer	U.S.A.	1982	Intel 8088	name image company company_name specs comments oc_id source Eagle PC /media/museum/photos/eagle_eagle-pc_1.jpg /companies/eagle-computers-inc EAGLE COMPUTERS INC. label value NAME Eagle PC label value MANUFACTURER Eagle Computers Inc. label value TYPE Professional Computer label value ORIGIN U.S.A. label value YEAR ? 1982 label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE GW Basic available on disk label value KEYBOARD Full-stroke IBM style keyboard, 10 function keys, numeric keypad label value CPU Intel 8088 label value SPEED 4,77 Mhz label value CO-PROCESSOR optional 8087 math coprocessor label value RAM 64 kb (up to 512 kb) label value TEXT MODES 80 x 25 label value GRAPHIC MODES 720 x 352\ Characters matrix : 11 x 19 pixels label value COLORS 8 label value I/O PORTS 2 serial ports, 1 parallel port label value BUILT IN MEDIA 2 x 5''1/4 disk-drives (320k each)\ optional hard-disk (10Mb, 32Mb) label value OS MS-DOS, CP/M 86 label value POWER SUPPLY PSU built-in label value PRICE 64k, 1 disk model : 4055 (France, december 1983)\ 128k, 2 disks model : 5275 (France, december 1983) author date text David Drager (United States) Thursday 2nd March 2017 The Eagle PC 2 was my first PC. Its most unusual feature was that it had 24 function keys! The founder of Eagle died in a sports car crash hours after his firm went public. http://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/10/business/corporate-triumph-then-death-in-a-ferrari.html author date text Leo Hermacinski (Boston USA) Sunday 2nd January 2005 I worked at Motorola in the early 80's designing video display monitors. Eagle was a big customer of ours as their Eagle PC sales really took off. IBM sued Eagle for IP infringement as the Eagle PC BIOS was a little too close to that in the IBM PC. Next the CEO of Eagle drove his car off a California clifftop and the company was wound up. Motorola ended up taking a large number of Eagle PCs as payment for money owed- and then sold the units to Moto employees. For many at Motorola this would have been their first PC purchase. Leo 529 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230503084046/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=529 2023-05-03

This was an IBM PC compatible system. It could even boot the IBM PC system disks. Its overall design was smarter than the traditional IBM PC. The keyboard could be stored in a dedicated space under the main unit.

The Eagle PC was first designed as a terminal to the Eagle 2000 System which used the 8086 chip as a client. However when IBM released the PC eagle turned it into a low end PC to compete.

It worked without any fan and was thus quite silent, which was rare for an PC compatible system... The graphic resolution was far better than the IBM standard : 720 x 352 instead of 320 x 200.

Two models were available : the PC 1 with 64k RAM and one 320k 5"1/4 disk-drive, and the PC 2 with 128k RAM and two 320l 5"1/4 disk-drives. It was sold with Eagle calc and Eagle Writer.

The Eagle PC was also sold in France by Thomson as the Micromega 16.

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