Swedish computers (was: Re: Old tandy 1000 keyboard 8 pin din pinout?

From: Charles P. Hobbs <transit_at_lerctr.org>
Date: Sat Nov 11 05:55:34 2000

On 11 Nov 2000, Iggy Drougge wrote:

>
> The 80186 was also utilised in the Swedish educational computer COMPIS,
> designed to run CP/M and the Danish COMAL language.

I never heard of the COMPIS....I do remember a Swedish computer called
the ABC-80...never actually saw one of those, but someone wrote an
emulator for it...really bad, TRS-80 Model I type graphics but it did
have a decent pinball game that someone wrote in BASIC...

> It had high-resoluting
> graphics (for its time), but was a quite a bad idea, developed by a company
> run by an old pornographer and given the public contract on dubious grounds.

Whoo-hoo. Do tell...
Received on Sat Nov 11 2000 - 05:55:34 GMT