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TRIUMPH ADLER TA-1600	Computers	Professional Computer	Germany	name image company company_name specs tabs photos comments oc_id source TA-1600 /media/museum/photos/triumph-adler_ta-1600_moya_1s.jpg /companies/triumph-adler TRIUMPH ADLER label value NAME TA-1600 label value MANUFACTURER Triumph Adler label value TYPE Professional Computer label value ORIGIN Germany label value YEAR 198x ? label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE Unknown label value KEYBOARD Kind of mechanical keyboard ? label value CPU Unknown label value SPEED Unknown label value CO-PROCESSOR Unknown label value RAM Unknown label value VRAM Unknown label value ROM Unknown label value TEXT MODES Unknown label value GRAPHIC MODES Unknown label value COLORS Amber monitor delivered by default. Colour features unknown label value SOUND Yes. Specifications unknown. label value SIZE / WEIGHT Unknown label value I/O PORTS Unknown label value BUILT IN MEDIA Unknown label value OS Unknown label value POWER SUPPLY Unknown label value PERIPHERALS Unknown label value PRICE from 13.000 DM (German Mark, 1983) photos title subtitle text image TA-1600 ... from a spanish commercial flyer Thanks to Jomoca for this picture /media/museum/photos/triumph-adler_ta-1600_moya_1.jpg author date text StefanoB Tuesday 27th June 2017 According to this valuable page: http://www.horniger.de/computer/ta/index.html $ 1982 $ TA 1600 SERIES 10 20 30 $ COMPUTER 1-16 USERS, 64 - 256 KB, TI-990 SERIES WITH TMS-9900 PROCESSOR $\ $ 1984 $ TA 1600 SERIES 25 35 38 $ COMPUTER 1-16 USERS, 256 - 2048 KB, TTI-990 SERIES WITH TMS-9900 PROCESSOR $ author date text Balazs Csizmazia (Hungary) Sunday 13rd November 2016 Around 1985 I had been working on a TA1630 machine which had an operating system called TAXO (Triumph Adler Extended Operating system) on it. It was a TI990 look-like minicomputer, we developed COBOL applications with a text editor called TED (I have rewritten it on UNIX/TANIX/Xenix machines later to be used by the customers using TA1630). author date text Petra (Germany) Saturday 28th July 2012 In the early 1980s I was Sales Assistant and Customer Supporter for the TA 1600 Series. As I remember, the 1600-10 had 2 Floppies 5 1/4 inch, the -20 2 Floppies 8 inch and the -30 1 8 inch Floppy plus Winchester drive 40 Mb. There still are some manuals and booting Floppies with "JDL" Job Description Language at my home office $) author date text Mike Borshell (UK) Thursday 26th July 2012 I was the UK Sales and Marketing Manager for TA Computers in the 1980s. There were 3 models:\ The TA1600-10, TA1600-20 and TA1600-30. The 1600-10 had 2 floppies(8inch) and the 1600-20 a winchester drive 20Mb I seem to remember. These 2 models were single user and in the UK we had the BOS operating system and business applications ported to them. The 1600-30 was based on the TI990 mini computer processor and was a multi user rack mount system that used a TA version of the Texas Instruments mini computer operating system. author date text Michael Titgemeyer (Germany) Sunday 4th December 2011 The system was absed on a TI9900 processor, the keyboard, was, as far as I remember, with mechanical switches author date text CLASSIFIED Friday 20th August 2010 that is a cool looking system i like how the monitor is sunk into the unit 1304 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230331122208/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1304 2023-03-31

The TA 1600 system was introduced in 1983 at the CeBIT (which was only a part of the "Hannover-Messe" by that time). TA showed a few sample applications and the 1600 family in general.

Triumph Adler's hardware included also the 1600/20-3 which was supplied with a permanent-swap-HDD-unit. This unit had a memory/storage capacity of 2 x 8 MB (Winchester technology).

Triumph Adler said the system (the 1600) will fit the demand of medium-sized businesses, due to the facts that these companies will need more storage capacities and much more flexibility at the external storage solutions. For the 1600/20 as well as the 1600/30 models were new 64 KB chipset modules available which extended the RAM to a maximum of 1 MB.

Software on the 1600 systems had the focus on the classic office computing (EDP). The standard package was called "TABS 1600" and included applications like, payroll accounting, stock management. But also, there were applications for special businesses available.

The pricing of the 1600 family started at 13.000 DM (German Mark) for a single system up to 250.000 DM for a "Multi-user-dialogue-system".

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