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.
Its ROM was very buggy, & was later replaced with the Oric Atmos.
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How about the succes this computer had here in the Netherlands!
Saturday 19th January 2019
Danilo (Netherlamds)
The Oric is one of those things that you ''fall in love with'' when you are a disaffected teenager. You choose a machine that isn''t exactly the coolest or most popular around but clearly is ''something else''. How many ways do we "lurve" thee, Oric? Check out the threads and posts here to find out, guys:
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)
NAME
ORIC 1
MANUFACTURER
Oric
TYPE
Home Computer
ORIGIN
United Kingdom
YEAR
1983
END OF PRODUCTION
Unknown
BUILT IN LANGUAGE
Oric Extended Basic v1.0
KEYBOARD
Chicklet keyboard, 57 keys. ESC, DEL ,CTRL, 2 x SHIFT, RETURN, 4 x arrow keys and one large spacebar
CPU
6502A
SPEED
1 MHz
CO-PROCESSOR
Custom gate array chip
RAM
16 KB or 48 KB
ROM
16 KB
TEXT MODES
40 x 28
GRAPHIC MODES
240 x 200 (high resolution)
COLORS
8
SOUND
Programmable Sound Generator AY-3-8912 (from General Instruments) 3 voices, 8 octaves + white noise
