The ABC-24 and ABC-26 could run up to 8 programs simultaneously and couls manage 7 workstations under M/PM (according to the advertisement). they had a real-time clock and 96 graphic symbols built-in.
There were several models : 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 26, mostly differentiated by the storage capacities...
The 2x Models were the successors of the ABC 10, which had a digital tape auxillary memory, supplied with DOSKET-T.
AI DOSKET is the AI Electronics Operating System. A lot of languages were developed for these computers: MBasic, CBasic, Basic, Pascal, Cobol80, PL/3, Fortran IV and assembler.
Please consider donating your old computer / videogame system to Old-Computers.com or one of our partners from anywhere in the world (Europe, America, Asia, etc.).
I have an ABC-26 Ai Electronics 8.5 inch floppy drive computer with keyboard still in working condition that I am interested in selling. The computer was bought new by my wife but we now only use notepads. Does anyone have any idea of the value?
Wednesday 22nd February 2017
JAN LE ROUX (SOUTH AFRICA)
NAME
ABC 26
MANUFACTURER
AI Electronics
TYPE
Professional Computer
ORIGIN
Japan
YEAR
1982
KEYBOARD
Mechanical QWERTY / AZERTY keyboard 16 function keys and numeric keypad
CPU
Zilog Z80A
SPEED
4 Mhz
CO-PROCESSOR
Arithmetic processor
RAM
64 kb (up to 1Mb)
ROM
4 kb (monitor)
TEXT MODES
80 x 24
GRAPHIC MODES
640 x 288 and 640 x 576 optional (PLOT 10 compatible)
COLORS
monochrome (12'' green monitor)
I/O PORTS
2 x serial ports - 2 x parallel ports x 1 GP-IB (IEEE 488) port
BUILT IN MEDIA
ABC-26 : 2 x 8'' disk-drives (1,2Mb each)
OS
Dosket, CP/M & M/PM
POWER SUPPLY
PSU built-in
PERIPHERALS
external disk-drives, 10Mb and 20Mb Winchester hard-disk
