====== Tangerine Microtan 65 (1979) ======
===== Features =====
* CPU: 6502 0.75 MHz
* RAM: 1 kb (up to 48k)
* ROM: 1 kb (TANBUG v1), upgradeable to 14kb
* Text Modes: 32 x 16
* Graphic Modes: 64 x 64 with graphic characters
* Colors: Monochrome
* I/O Ports: Bus, Tape, Monitor
* Keyboard: Hexadecimal keyboard in basic version
* Built In Language: Machine-code (through TANBUG)
===== History and Trivia =====
Tangerine developped this computer before they became Oric and produced the Oric-1. It was mainly sold in kit with a little hexadecimal keyboard.
The unextended Microtan 65 couldn't use Basic (Basic65) due to its RAM limitation (1kb), so only machine-code was usable.
Te 1kb ROM contained TANBUG, a monitor which allowed to enter machine code programs. But with the unextended Microtan65, there was no way to save your work (not tape facility), so you had to re-type your program each time you switched-on the computer!
//(info from old-computers.com)//
===== Links =====
* Microtan Page at Oric World -- http://oric.ifrance.com/microtan.html
* Geoff's Page -- http://www.geoff.org.uk/microtan/
* Microtan 65 at old-computers.com -- http://old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=166
===== Other Emulators =====
* David A. Brown Microtan 65 Emu -- http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dbzillion/tann/tan65.html
* Geoff's Microtan 65 Emu -- http://www.geoff.org.uk/microtan/download.htm
* Microtan Java Emu -- http://oric.ifrance.com/microtan/microtan_java.html
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