====== Microkey Primo Series (1984) ======
===== Features =====
* CPU: U880A (GDR Z80A) 2.5 MHz (up to 3.5 MHz with some hacking)
* RAM: 16 KB (up to to 48 KB depending on the model)
* ROM: 16 KB
* Text Modes: 16 lines x 42 characters
* Graphic Modes: 192 x 256 dots
* Colors: Monochrome
* Sound: Beeper
* Keyboard: Membrane keyboard
* Built In Language: BASIC interpreter
===== History and Trivia =====
The Primo computer series was manufactured by Microkey Kftt. (Kutatási Fejlesztési Termelési Társulás), and was originaly developed to be a school computer in Hungary.
There was a colour prototype as well, called pro PRIMO.
== Versions ==
A type did not have built-in joystick and serial ports.
B type could works together with the Commodore VC1541 floppy drive unit (external software had to be load for this from tape). B type also featured a full stroke keyboard (capacitive was not a perfect way for quick typing).
//(info from old-computers.com)//
===== Links =====
* Primo Hungarian Home Page -- http://www.primo.homeserver.hu/
* Primo 32 at old-computers.com -- http://old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=38
===== Other Emulators =====
* Primoemu -- http://www.primo.homeserver.hu/
* Ultimo -- http://www.primo.homeserver.hu/
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