This British computer was one of the most popular computers in Europe in the beginning of the 80's. It was a small computer, which was a competitor of the Sinclair Spectrum.
The two models (16 and 48) had the same technical characteristics.
A small plotter was available for this computer.
I remember when I got my first Oric-1 (I was still in school then) and immediately took it apart. Back then it was all magic. Computers these days don''t inspire me in the same way. Sigh!
I met the guy who wrote the ROM and he was rude to me! He nearly crushed my dreams but luckily failed.
Friday 19th September 2014
DigitalDunc (England)
Greetings,
2013 marks the 30th birthday of the Oric 1. Some of the Oric community main sites have joined to organize some celebrations during 2013.
You can read more about it on the official celebration page (english and french) here: http://oric30years.defence-force.org
We also have a facebook page with regular posts about the Oric machines, their history, peripherals, etc... https://www.facebook.com/OricBirthday
I have an Oric-1. I bought the Oric rather than a Sinclair ZX Spectrum because I liked the proper bus expansion connector on the back and I wanted to experiment. It''s actually my second one since the cassette input failed in a few weeks on the first. The replacement failed too but by then the Oric-1 circuit diagram had been published in Oric User Magazine and comparing the diagram with what was actually in my Oric-1 (it wasn''t quite exactly the same) I could see part of the cassette interface that looked badly designed so I tried fixing it and it worked!!! The solution, if you have an Oric that won''t load from cassette is to fit a pull-up resistor on the input from the cassette interface to the 6522 VIA chip. I just soldered the resistor under the PCB across pins 18 and 20 of the 6522 VIA. I used 2k2 but 4k7 would probably be plenty. The original design used only the on chip pull-up but I knew from experience that the pull-ups in the 6522 were often very weak.
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