The Robotron 1715 was designed in Eastern Germany and manufactured by VEB Robotron Büromaschinenwerk "Ernst Thälmann" in Sömmerda.
It was based on a Z80 CPU (in fact Eastern clone U880), and used SCP, a CP/M compatible operating system. It was widely used in Russia and other East European countries for office and educational purposes.
Although it didn't stand the comparison with Western PC systems, it was a very robust and reliable system daily used by numerous companies in every field. One of its main drawback is that it didn't have any graphic resolution.
There were different models of the 1715, with different memory and floppy configurations. The 1715M had 256 KB RAM and SCP3 (CP/M 3.0 clone) as its OS.
The 1715 was the direct successor of the Robotron A5120 and was fully software-compatible with it.
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Monday 8th May 2017
Jan Procházka (Czech Republic)
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Thursday 7th August 2014
Piotr (Poland)
I have a Robotron 1715 FDD machine if you like$) I looks like new. Nobody knew what is was for many years.
Thursday 23rd January 2014
Przemek (Poland)
NAME
PC 1715
MANUFACTURER
Robotron
TYPE
Professional Computer
ORIGIN
Germany
YEAR
1985
END OF PRODUCTION
1989
BUILT IN LANGUAGE
None
KEYBOARD
Typewriter type, 97 keys with numeric keypad and 15 function keys
CPU
U880 (Z80 clone)
SPEED
2.25 MHz
CO-PROCESSOR
CRT controller : KR 580 WG 75 (Intel 8275)
RAM
64 KB (theoricaly upgradable to 256 KB, but memory expansions never came)
