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title: Enterprise 64 / 128
categories:
- Computers
types:
- Home Computer
origins:
- United Kingdom
years:
- '1985'
cpus:
- Zilog Z80A
params:
name: Enterprise 64 / 128
image: /media/museum/photos/enterprise_64_system_s1.jpg
company: /companies/enterprise
company_name: Enterprise
specs:
- label: NAME
value: Enterprise 64 / 128
- label: MANUFACTURER
value: Enterprise
- label: TYPE
value: Home Computer
- label: ORIGIN
value: United Kingdom
- label: YEAR
value: '1985'
- label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE
value: IS-Basic (ROM cartridge)
- label: KEYBOARD
value: Complete keyboard with function keys and built-in joystick
- label: CPU
value: Zilog Z80A
- label: SPEED
value: 4 MHz
- label: CO-PROCESSOR
value: NICK (video), DAVE (sound)
- label: RAM
value: |-
Enterprise 64 : 64 KB (50 KB available)\
Enterprise 128 : 128 KB
- label: VRAM
value: 64 KB
- label: ROM
value: 32 KB
- label: TEXT MODES
value: 40 x 24 / 80 x 32-28 / 84 x 64
- label: GRAPHIC MODES
value: 'Eight graphic modes, max : 672 x 512 (2 col), most used : 256 x 160 (16 col)'
- label: COLORS
value: 256 (simultaneously in the mode 180 x 80)
- label: SOUND
value: 3 channels + 1 noise channel, 8 octaves
- label: SIZE / WEIGHT
value: 40 x 27 x 2,5 cm
- label: I/O PORTS
value: RGB Video / Audio output, Expansion port, Tape Interface, Joystick (2), Cardridge slot, RS432 (Serial/Net), TV output, Power input, Printer
- label: BUILT IN MEDIA
value: none
- label: OS
value: IS-DOS, EXDOS
- label: POWER SUPPLY
value: External PSU
- label: PRICE
value: Unknown
tabs:
- photos
- software
- emulators
- links
- docs
- videos
photos:
- title: ENTERPRISE 64
subtitle: ''
text: On top of its advanced features the Enterprise had a nice design and good quality keyboard, even if one can reproach a little 'toyish' feel for the keyboard and joystick.
image: /media/museum/photos/enterprise_64_system_s2.jpg
- title: ENTERPRISE 128
subtitle: ''
text: |-
Little riddle: Apart from the Enterprise label, what is the only external difference between an Enterprise 64 and a 128?\
See the next picture...
image: /media/museum/photos/enterprise_128_system_s1.jpg
- title: BOTH MODELS
subtitle: ''
text: |-
So, the only difference is... the joystick cap color ;-) Green for the 64, grey for the 128.
In fact there is another difference between these two models, the 128 has a German keyboard, The 64 is a UK version.
image: /media/museum/photos/enterprise_128_systems_s1.jpg
- title: SIDES VIEW
subtitle: ''
text: Notice the expansion connector on the right side, intended for the (vaporware?) dual floppy drive unit, and the ROM cartridge slot on the left side.
image: /media/museum/photos/enterprise_64_sides_s1.jpg
- title: CLOSE-UP
subtitle: ''
text: The joystick replaces arrow keys in the Basic editor and wordprossor, it seems to be a bit fragile for action games though.
image: /media/museum/photos/enterprise_64_closeup_s1.jpg
- title: REAR CONNECTORS
subtitle: ''
text: |-
**(1)** Reset switch\
**(2-3)** Joystick connectors\
**(4)** printer connector\
**(5)** Serial or network connector\
**(6)** Jacks allowing to connect up to 2 tape recorders\
**(7)** RGB output connector\
**(8)** TV aerial jack\
**(9)** External AC adaptor jack.
image: /media/museum/photos/enterprise_64_rearcon_s1.jpg
- title: 64'S MAINBOARD
subtitle: ''
text: |-
The delay in the Enterprise launch was primarily due to design difficulties with the two custom circuits which provide the Entreprise with powerful graphic and sound features. The general design of the unit is of good quality.
**(1)** First custom IC, called Nick, from its designer's name. Controls the powerful graphic features. A rudimentary heat sink covers it\
**(2)** Second custom IC, called Dave. Manages 4 sound channels and 8 octaves.\
**(3)** Expansions port, mainly intended to connect the (vaporware ?) double floppy drive unit\
**(4)** 32 KB ROM chip. Holds the Wordprocessor program\
**(5)** Z80-A microprocessor running at 4 Mhz, here a SGS version\
**(6)** 64 Kb. RAM, stored in eigth 4164 chips (64000 cells x 1 bit)\
**(7)** Keyboard connectors. Notice also the smal loudspeaker, fortunately, an Hi-Fi sound output connector is provided\
**(8)** ROM cartridge connector, mainly used by the Basic language cartridge.\
**(9)** Power regulators heat sink.
image: /media/museum/photos/enterprise_64_mainboard_s2.jpg
- title: 128'S MAINBOARD
subtitle: ''
text: The mainboard is exactly the same as the 64 version, a piggy-back 64 KB RAM expansion card has simply been added.
image: /media/museum/photos/enterprise_128_mainboard_s1.jpg
- title: PIGGY-BACK RAM CARD
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/photos/enterprise_128_mainboard_s2.jpg
- title: MANUALS
subtitle: ''
text: Installation, IS-BASIC and wordprocessor manuals, and IS-BASIC cartridge.
image: /media/museum/photos/enterprise_64_manuals_s1.jpg
- title: 64'S BOX
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/photos/enterprise_64_box_s1.jpg
- title: 128'S BOX
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/photos/enterprise_128_box_s1.jpg
- title: SOME ENTERPRISE PROGRAMS
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/photos/enterprise_128_programs_s1.jpg
screenshots:
- title: BOOT SCREEN
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/software/enterprise_boot_ss.gif
- title: TYPE
subtitle: The built-in wordprocessor
text: ''
image: /media/museum/software/enterprise_type_ss.gif
- title: 16 COLOURS GRAPHICS
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/software/enterprise_16colours_ss.gif
- title: AIRWOLF
subtitle: Spectrum adaptation
text: ''
image: /media/museum/software/enterprise_airwolf_ss.gif
- title: ARC OF YESOD
subtitle: Spectrum adaptation
text: ''
image: /media/museum/software/enterprise_arcofyesod_ss.gif
- title: BEACH-HEAD
subtitle: Spectrum adaptation
text: ''
image: /media/museum/software/enterprise_beachhead_ss.gif
- title: CHAIN
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/software/enterprise_chains_ss.gif
- title: DEFENDER OF THE CROWN SHOW
subtitle: Demo
text: ''
image: /media/museum/software/enterprise_doc-show_ss.gif
- title: FRUITS
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/software/enterprise_fruits_ss.gif
- title: PERROQUET
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/software/enterprise_perroquet_ss.gif
- title: GASTON LAGAFE
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/software/enterprise_gaston_ss.gif
- title: SINUS
subtitle: Demo
text: ''
image: /media/museum/software/enterprise_sinus-demo_ss.gif
- title: SMALL DEMO
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/software/enterprise_smalldemo_ss.gif
- title: THE ABYSS
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/software/enterprise_the-abyss_ss.gif
emulators:
- title: EP128EMU
url: http://ep128emu.sourceforge.net
platform: MS DOS
text: Free, portable emulator of the Enterprise 128 with C sources
- title: ep32
url: http://web.axelero.hu/egzo/ep/
platform: Windows
text: ep32 is a heavily modified version of kevin thacker's ENTER emulator
- title: Multi-Machine Emulator
url: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Stadium/4428/
platform: Windows
text: Emulates the Enterprise
- title: NEMESYS (NEw Machine Emulator SYStem)
url: http://nemesys.lgb.hu/
platform: Unix / Linux
text: This multi-system emulator, can emulate the Enterprise. Project is in VERY early stage at the moment (May 2003).
- title: Penelope
url: http://emil.alarmix.org/tombox/
platform: Other platform
text: New emulator for 32bits OS, currently (july 2001) in early development phase
links:
- title: Enterprise 128 KB page
url: http://enterprise.8bit.hu/
text: Nice hungarian page with a lot of online documentation !
- title: Enterprise Forever
url: http://enterpriseforever.com/
text: The best forum about Enterprise (English part exists also) and many files to download
- title: EPTE home by Daniel Stocker
url: http://epte.z80.hu/
text: You need that ! EPTE is a virtual tape which allows you load software from your PC to your Enterprise.
- title: Z80 Számítógép Múzeum
url: http://www.ep128.hu/
text: Hungarian site dedicated to the Enterprise and ZX Spectrum
docs:
- title: ENTERPRISE PROGRAMMING GUIDE
url: http://enterprise.8bit.hu/document/books.html
cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/enterprise_programming_guide.jpg
text: |-
[**ENTERPRISE PROGRAMMING GUIDE**](http://enterprise.8bit.hu/document/books.html)written by Enterprise Computers Ltd
 compiled/archived by Zozosoft (scan) / gafz (pdf)\
 type of document : PDF\
 source : [Enterprise Hungarian website](http://enterprise.8bit.hu/)
- title: ENTERPRISE SET UP GUIDE
url: http://enterprise.8bit.hu/document/books.html
cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/doc_enterprise_set-up-guide.jpg
text: |-
[**ENTERPRISE SET UP GUIDE**](http://enterprise.8bit.hu/document/books.html)written by Enterprise Computers Ltd
 type of document : PDF\
 size : 9,9 MB\
 source : [Enterprise Hungarian website](http://enterprise.8bit.hu/)
- title: ENTERPRISE EXPANDABLE DISK OPERATING SYSTEM
url: http://enterprise.8bit.hu/document/books.html
cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/enterprise_exdos_manual.jpg
text: |-
[**ENTERPRISE EXPANDABLE DISK OPERATING SYSTEM**](http://enterprise.8bit.hu/document/books.html)written by Enterprise Computers Ltd
 compiled/archived by Zozosoft (scan) / gafz (ocr)\
 type of document : HTML\
 source : [Enterprise Hungarian website](http://enterprise.8bit.hu/)
videos:
- title: Enterprise 128 TV commercial
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp6wc6YJpn4
text: 'Length: 43 s'
comments:
- author: greg (Scotland)
date: Wednesday 13rd November 2013
text: |-
Hi
I ve got one , if anyone want to buy , please contact me\
ENTERPRISE COMPUTERS 128K
sales5255@gmail.com
thanks
- author: Roger Jowett (Ulster Londonderry)
date: Saturday 6th April 2013
text: |-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v$zsjTpFR0oYQ
has anyone found a zx spectrum 128k full emulator that runs commercial software please
- author: Thomas (Hungary)
date: Wednesday 3rd April 2013
text: Hello I would like to Buy Enterprise EXDOS with floppy...Somebody?? plesase write me info@mmkft.hu thanks
- author: Marq
date: Saturday 3rd March 2012
text: 'See the Hungarian website for documentation: http://enterprise.8bit.hu/'
- author: Lez Anderson (England)
date: Tuesday 29th November 2011
text: |-
If anyone is interested in helping me to put the OLD Enterprise64/128 into VHDL code so it can be run on an Altera DE0 board or even on a STRATIX ASIC chip... making a single chip ENTERPRISE 128K plus, running at 25MHz plus !!!!
Then email me at lezanderson@gmail.com
- author: Vic (UK)
date: Saturday 12th November 2011
text: I used to work for Welwyn Electric in Bedlington, Northumberland UK. Our systems department built the Elan Enterprise here in the UK around 1983 as I remember. There were hundreds quarantined in our store when the buyer went bust! Eventually lots were sold to employees at a cheap price... I used to test them and remember the NICK $ DAVE chips that were the type specific ASICS in the Enterprise. I have a boxed as new 64 here and schematics!!!
- author: Jeff
date: Sunday 3rd July 2011
text: Where can I get schematics, service manuals , Technical documents ??? Can anyone help.... please leave a message.....
- author: Marcus (England)
date: Sunday 3rd July 2011
text: Does anyone know if the Enterprise has been put into VHDL code ... so I can put it on my Altera DE0 board ??
- author: Alex Filatov (Russia)
date: Wednesday 1st December 2010
text: |-
It also was shipped with special tape recorder witch coul be remotely controllel from a computer by second wire with some kind of microjack. It had 2 type recorder interfaces (standard JACK) and 2 remote interfaces (that microjack).
sorry for bad English.
- author: Vicman
date: Thursday 30th September 2010
text: |-
@Phillip :
try it here :
http://enterpriseforever.com/other_topics-b5.0/
- author: Phillip
date: Thursday 23rd September 2010
text: Does anyone know where to get technical info on the Enterprise. Service manuals, schematics etc ???
- author: Lez Anderson (England)
date: Thursday 23rd September 2010
text: |-
Has anyone tried putting the Enterprise onto a FPGA (field programmable Gate Array) or CPLD/ASIC to produce a single chip version. i.e. an Enterprise 128 on a single chip ??
It''s been done for other old machines!!!
- author: Andrew Dunlop (UK)
date: Tuesday 12th August 2008
text: |-
I worked as a developer for a number of Enterprise titles for about 18 months prior to it's release. I actually had two Enterprise's! One would do 80 column and the other high res graphics. I think they were having problems with the video chip.
Tim from London. Did I meet with you and provide you with copies of the assembler and 3d starstrike (spectrum conversion) many many years ago in London? I was working for DK'tronics, CDS software and Intelligent Software at the time.
- author: Miodrag Stancevic (Serbia)
date: Wednesday 11th October 2006
text: Please, provide me a power supply specifications for Enterprise 64.
- author: John Fisher (UK)
date: Thursday 5th January 2006
text: |-
I won an Enterprise 64 from a magazine competition- the month it was supposed to be released. It eventaually arrived after several months of my patient chasing, so I probably had one of the first machines- but by then I was much more into BBC machines. It WAS a nice BASIC with some\
clever tweaks. In my time I dragged my school into supporting my first 1802 homebrew, Commodore PET, BBC B, Atari ST and Acorn Archimedes- they\
eventually went for the unimaginative and expensive PC! Ho hum....
- author: Sergio (Verona - Italy)
date: Tuesday 30th November 2004
text: |-
Hello,
i've an enterprise 128, but i don't have any manual, anyone know where i can find some info about the enterprise basic and os ?
When i was a child it was a dream... Now i've one of this and i want to try to do something!!!
Thank you
- author: Mike Smith (London)
date: Sunday 17th October 2004
text: Wow... so the Elan Enterprise really exists??? I remember getting a promotional brochure for one when I was still at school - it looked fantastic, miles ahead of anything else on the market at the time. But alas that was the last I heard of it - I presumed it never made it into production. I'd love to see any info / pictures of it if anyone has anything. Regards, Mike.
- author: Richard Kilpatrick (Hawick, Scotland)
date: Tuesday 29th June 2004
text: I had one of these in 1989-1995. Nice to see familiar names. I wrote a lot of stuff, but the forum software doesn't like Safari, so I can't be bothered retyping it. I've got another 128 and EXDOS, plus a 'FLAN' motherboard which must be early production or pre-production....
- author: Russ Pitman (Hastings)
date: Saturday 5th June 2004
text: Enterprise is still going strong, hopefully will be getting more info and a web site ASAP, If not search for the 'Enterprise Depository' and there you will find a bit more. Regards Russ P.
- author: Tim (London)
date: Wednesday 14th January 2004
text: |-
Just came across this page. I used to run the Magazine for the User group "Private Enterprise". Any body remember it.
BTW it was a great machine, Ahead of its time at conception, which was one of the reasons it failed, they could not make the main Chips Nick and Dave. They did at the time have the most transistors in one device. The delay in getting it to work then deciding once they did perfect it, to move production to Europe, took so long that the likes of the Amstrad filled got there first.
I even had a Mouse and software on sale for it, any body remember it.
Regards
Tim
- author: Ian Mapleson (Edinburgh)
date: Wednesday 14th January 2004
text: |-
What was the spec of the Elan? I wanted one but\
parents couldn't afford it. Ended up with an Electron\
instead, which was great, though the Elan would have\
been nicer perhaps. There's an Elan on Ebay UK just\
now, but it's for 200 UKP! Ouch. Does anyone know\
how many were made? Was there just one version?\
There don't seem to be too many pages on the net\
about the machine.
Ian.
- author: Alex (Munich / Germany)
date: Friday 8th August 2003
text: I found my Enterprise 64 unit again and want to play "KING OF THE CASTLE" again ... but I can't find the Powersupply and TV Cable. Can anybody email the specs ? THANKS !!
- author: donald (glasgow)
date: Sunday 22nd June 2003
text: HI, i used to have an Enterprise 64 with the mouse and speech synthesiser!!, i gave it to my brother (boxed) years ago, who gave it away for nothing, i could have killed him. Great machine.
- author: Ian (Northumberland)
date: Friday 28th February 2003
text: |-
Woot I have 3 of these !
....working for the company that made them helps of course
- author: Robert (Manchester (UK))
date: Wednesday 12th June 2002
text: Anyone remember the TV advert with 'Max Headroom' doing the voice over?
- author: Knut Axel (Norway)
date: Monday 10th June 2002
text: |-
I have just got my hands on an Enterprise 64, but I only have the machine. I would love to buy some software and hardware to it, if anyone has some they would sell.
Thanks
- author: Clive (Plymouth)
date: Wednesday 29th May 2002
text: Hi the Enterprise was my 1st computer and I sold it at a car boot for nothing, however I have just managed to pick another up whcih unfortunately does not have a power supply could somebody help with the PSU specs please
- author: Steve Grabauskas (UK)
date: Wednesday 15th May 2002
text: One of the best computers I ever owned! Trying to track down a mate of mine - lent him my Enterprise 128 + 720K DD about 10 years ago! Still got the tecnical manual kicking around here somewhere.... ;-)
- author: Mike O Brien (Australia)
date: Friday 3rd May 2002
text: |-
Hi.
I want to buy an Enterprise.
Will pay a fair price.
Any ideas (or offers).
Cheers
Mike.
- author: Nevermind (Norway)
date: Sunday 28th April 2002
text: Elan Enterprise 64/128 would have been a great success if it had been released earlier! I think it was one of the first home computers featuring stereo sound... It had a great and powerful ANSI basic (which even formatted the code according to loops and subroutines) with multimedia functions and even control of i/o. (Compared with the commodore basic that consisted of 90% "poke" :-)
- author: T0Mi[xts] (Hungary)
date: Sunday 10th March 2002
text: Where can i get EP programs?????
oc_id: 153
source:
url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230314222731/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=153
date: '2023-03-14'
---
The Enterprise 64 was a very long-awaited computer, two years between its announcement and its marketing! It changed its name a lot of times: its first name was Elan 64, then Flan, lastly Enterprise.
It has great features, which wasn't found on all other home computers, like its interfaces, great graphics and sounds capacities provided by two special custom chips called "Nick" and "Dave".
The BASIC Interpreter is supplied on a ROM cartridge and can be easily replaced with any other language. This BASIC is a very powerful structured basic with great graphic commands and can store several programs simultaneously in RAM.
It has a small word processing in ROM and up to 32 computers can be linked together.
But despite its great characteristics and all its interfaces, the Enterprise 64 was a flop in the marketplace.
Several months later, a new model was launched: the Enterprise 128, which was nothing more than an Enterprise 64 with 128 KB RAM.\
Unsold stocks of these systems (nearly all :-)), were sold to East-Europeans countries, and especially Hungary where it met great success. Thus, most nowadays Enterprise activity comes from here.
---
**Kjetil T. Homme** specifies:\
The editing of the word processors was exploited during programming -- you could scroll up and down and edit the code with ease. You could hold down shift while moving the joystick to move by whole pages and quickly scan through the code. Contemporary computers required you to write LIST 100-200 so it fit on the current screen, and then you could move your cursor to edit those lines. The comparative ease of editing made the line numbers in BASIC much less of a hassle, which contributed to its higher level feel compared to other BASIC dialects.\
EXDOS was the DOS which was in the ROM of the floppy disc adapter. It was sort of CP/M compatible, so you could run classics like WordStar and SuperCalc. It was surprisingly modern and used FAT12 as the filesystem, so I could easily transport files between my Enterprise and my Atari ST. I could even use the same DS/DD Cumana floppy drive, since it used a standard Shugart interface (the ST needed a converter cable to a DIN plug).\
The RS432 serial interface could in theory handle greater speeds than RS232 (with which it is backwards compatible).
**Andrew J King** reports:\
The Enterprise case was designed by UK product designer Geoff Hollington, subsequently more famous for his work for Herman Miller office furniture.
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