ABC 800
The Luxor ABC 800 series are office versions of the ABC 80 home computer. They featured an enhanced BASIC interpreter, a slightly faster clocked CPU and more memory: 32 kilobytes RAM and 32 KB ROM was now standard, the Z80 is clocked at 3 MHz (quarter the 12 MHz crystal). It featured 40×24 text mode with eight colors (ABC 800 C) or 80×24 text mode monochrome (ABC 800 M). They could also be extended with "high" resolution graphics (240×240 pixels at 2 bpp) using 16 KB RAM as video memory.
Luxor ABC 800 computer in the collections of Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology | |
| Manufacturer | Luxor in Motala, Sweden |
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| Type | Personal computer |
| Release date | 1981 |
| Introductory price | 9,800 SEK (1982) (ex.VAT) |
| Operating system | 24 KB ROM for BASIC II |
| CPU | 8-bit Zilog Z80A @ 3 MHz |
| Memory | 32 KB ROM + 32 KB RAM |
| Graphics | Text mode 80×24 colour Teletext, 78×75 block graphics or 240×240 at 2 bpp, 512×240 at 4 bpp, 256×240 at 4 bpp with red, green, blue, yellow, cyan, magenta, white and black |
| Sound | Beep, within the keyboard |
| Connectivity | 2x serial (75 - 19,200 baud) DE-9, 2x32-pin eurocard 4680 bus connector, video DA-15, keyboard DIN-7 |
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