Alphatronic PC - 01 |
Triumph was originally Triumph-Adler - the merger company of the 2 typewriter manufacturers Triumph and Adler, to which Triumph (which also produced mechanical calculators and sewing-machines) was the bigger one. Later they got US-typewriter Royal merged into it and had the best years between 1975 and 1988, when they even build competiting machines to IBM System /34 and /36 ... but they did neither understand nor learn the business and ran out of the financial power. The technical part of TA is today a subsidary of Olivetti which tells it all about the downfall of TA. The operational part is a Holding in Nuremberg, which deals with offices, buildings and health-care. The Alphatronic had a pretty good success in Germany but was definitly too expensive, it has few success outside. It was meant to be a mix between a home-computer and a business machine, but its sound and graphic features were to weak to play with... It is CP/M machine and quite a few sotfware packages were available for it. There were two disk-drives : F1 and F2. F1 had the controller built-in. You had to have F1 to use F2, the second one. Sometimes, the Alphatronic PC was sold as a complete wordprocessing package with a daisy-wheel printer (Triumph-Adler TR-170) and a word-processing cartridge inserted into the ROM-pack slot (top left part of the case). (www.old-computers.com) |
Manufacturer | Triumph Adler | Name | Alphatronic PC |
Type | Professional Computer | Origine | Germany |
Introduction Date | 1983 | End of production | ??? |
Built in Language | Microsoft Basic 5.11 | Keyboard | Full-stroke keyboard, 6 function keys, arrow keys and separated numeric keypad, 85 keys |
CPU | Zilog Z80A | Speed | 4 Mhz |
Coprocessor | Mostek 6845 (grafics) | Amount of Ram | 64 Kb |
Vram | ??? | Rom | 32 KB |
Text Modes | 40 x 24, 80 x 24 | Graphic Modes | 80 x 72, 160 x 72 |
Colors | 8 | Sound | 1 voice, built-in speaker |
Size / Weight | 3,5 kg | Built in Media | optional one or two 5.25'' disk-drives (320 kb each) |
I/O Ports | RGB video out, Tape interface, Serial RS232c/V24 port (from 300 to 9600 baud), Centronics/Parallel port, Disk-drive connector, Cartridge/Rompack slot | OS | CP/M 2.1 with diskdrives |
Power Supply | ??? | Introduction Price | 1500 DM (Germany, 83), 760€ (France, 83), UC + monochrom monitor + 2 disk-drives = 2142€ (France, 84), 105€ (France, june 86) |
Sold | ??? | Serial Number | ??? |
Other Extras | Boxed, Manuals | Bought Where | Ebay |
Bought When | 09/02/03 | Condition | ??? |
Price Paid | 57.5 € | Specs of my Model | ??? |
Setup Today | ??? |
Alphatronic PC-01 Ebay on 09/02/03. Paid 50€ + 7.5€ shipping costs. |