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====== Orion 128 (1990) ======




===== Features =====

* CPU: KR580VM80A (i8080A clone)
* RAM: 128kB (expandable to 256kB)
* ROM: 2kB
* Colors: up to 16
* Video: 384 x 256
* Keyboard: 67 keys russian keyboard



===== History and Trivia =====

Orion schematics were published in 1990 in a magazine for HAM radio enthusiasts called "Radio". It is not clear if the machine was ever sold in assembled form as a mass-market product, or even only as a kit.

From the technical point of view the Orion-128 was superior to machines like the Radio-RK86 and its many compatible versions but it was never as popular as these.

The Orion has a TV-output and uses a tape recorder as mass-storage device. In 1992 a disk-drive extension was released and a CP/M 80 version was developed, allowing a wider range of software to be used.

//(info from homecomputer.de)//



===== Links =====

* Orion-128 page -- http://orion128.nikom.biz/ (russian)
* Orion-128 at Home Computer Museum -- http://www.homecomputer.de/pages/easteurope_ussr.html



===== Other Emu =====

* OrionEmu -- http://www.nedopc.org/nedopc/orion/emul.shtml
* Orion-128 Emu -- http://gri.irk.ru/orion/
* EMU80 -- http://emu80.org/dl.html
* EMU -- http://bashkiria-2m.narod.ru/
* Emulator 3000 -- http://www.emulator3000.org/e3.htm




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