My first computer:
NAME Electron
MANUFACTURER Acorn Computer
TYPE Home Computer
ORIGIN United Kingdom
YEAR July 1983
BUILT IN LANGUAGE Acorn Electron Basic + 6502 assembler
KEYBOARD QWERTY full-stroke keyboard, 56 keys, basic statements accessible through keys, 10 function keys (0...9 keys + FUNC)
ESCAPE, CAPS LK/FUNC, CTRL,BREAK,COPY,RETURN,DELETE,SHIFT (x2)
CPU MOS 6502A
SPEED 1.79 MHz
COPROCESSOR custom ULA
RAM 32 kb
ROM 32 kb
TEXT MODES 20 x 32, 40 x 25, 40 x 32, 80 x 25, 80 x 32
GRAPHIC MODES 160 x 256 (4 or 16 colors), 320 x 256 (2 or 4 colors), 640 x 256 (2 colors)
COLORS 8 colors + 8 flashing versions of the same colors
SOUND 1 channel of sound + 1 channel of white sound, 7 octaves. In fact 3 virtual sound channels mapped to the single available physical channel.
Built-in speaker
SIZE / WEIGHT 16 x 34 x 6.5 cm
I/O PORTS Expansion port, Tape-recorder connector (1200 baud), aerial TV connector (RF modulator), RGB video output
POWER SUPPLY External PSU, 18v
PRICE £199 (UK, august 83)
My first real PC
Amstrad PC 1512
(Schneider in Germany/Austria)
CGA compatible graphics system with special 640x200x16 graphics mode.
512 KB ram on board, sockets for additional 128 kb on board.
delivered as
PC1512SD (1 5,25 inch double density disk drive (360kb))
PC1512DD (2 5,25 inch double density disk drives)
PC1512HD10 (1 5,25 inch double density disk driver, harddisk controller and 10MB harddisk)
PC1512HD20 (....20 MB harddisk)
(monochrome (about 16 levels grays) or color monitor)
DynaMite
