====== Luxor ABC 80 (1978) ======
===== Features =====
* CPU: Z80 3MHz
* RAM: 6 KB (up to to 32 KB)
* ROM: 16 KB
* Text Modes: 40 x 24 (ViewData and Teletext compatible)
* Graphics Modes: 78 x 75
* Colors: Monochrome
* Sound: 1 channel - Built-in speaker
* I/O Ports: V24 / RS232
* Storage: Optional 2 x 5.25" disk-drives (built in)
* Keyboard: Full-stroke 55 keys
* Built in Language: Luxor Basic
===== Usage =====
== Keyboard ==
Full-stroke 55 keys
1! 2@ 3# 4¤ 5% 6& 7/ 8( 9) 0= +? É <>
UPPER
CASE Q W E R T Y U I O P Å Ü RETURN
CTRL A S D F G H J K L Ö Ä '* <-
SHIFT Z X C V B N M ,; .: -_ SHIFT ->
SPACEBAR
===== Known Issue =====
The driver is incomplete, with many remaining issues.
== To Do ==
* screen timing PROMs are not dumped
* 74S262 chip pinout/dump needed
* keyboard scanning is awkwardly slow
* graphics mode is not implemented
* cassette interface
* floppy disk controller card thru ABC bus
* printer thru ABC bus
* IEC thru ABC bus
===== History and Trivia =====
Luxor is a Swedish company that have made TV's and radio's for many years. However, the originators of the ABC-80 were not to be found at Luxor, but at the Swedish Zilog agent Scandia Metric and Computer Contruction Agency Dataindustrier (DIAB). Luxor were brought into the deal for their competence in CRTs and larger scale development.
Many schools in Sweden had ABC 80 or ABC 800 for the students. It was possible to connect together several ABC 80 thanks to a network called ABC NET.
//(info from old-computers.com)//
===== Links =====
* ABC Mastodont Manual (Swedish) -- http://hem.passagen.se/mani/abc/
* Goran Lundberg's web site -- http://www.hultsfred.org/luxor.htm
* Luxor ABC 800 homepage -- http://www.devili.iki.fi/Computers/Luxor/index.en.html
* Rikard's ABC80 links -- http://www.etek.chalmers.se/~e7rikard/abc80.html
* Luxor ABC 80 at old-computers.com -- http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=37
===== Other Emulators =====
* WinABC80 (ABC-80 emulator by Erik Isaksson) -- http://www.lysator.liu.se/~exon/archive.html
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