ABC 1600 at the Swedish broadcasting museum
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Type | Personal computer |
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Release date | 1985 |
Introductory price | 47,125 SEK + VAT (≈5,890 USD) |
Operating system | ABCenix |
CPU | Motorola 68008 8 MHz |
Memory | 1 MByte (16 kB ROM) |
Graphics | Graphics 1024×768 1-bpp; Text (videotex) portrait – 73×80, character 7×9; Landscape – 25×80, character 9×13 |
Sound | Beep |
Connectivity | 2× RS 232C, keyboard, external hard drive (floppy drive), monitor, printer, 4 expansion slots, TV |
Predecessor | ABC 800 |
The ABC 1600 was a personal computer from Luxor that was introduced in 1985. It was built around the Motorola 68008 processor, had 1 megabyte of memory and used the operating system ABCenix, a Unix-like system developed from DNIX.
The ABC 1600 used monochrome graphics with a display resolution of 1024 × 768 and the screen could be turned 90° while in use depending on whether the user desired to work in standing (portrait) or horizontal (landscape) format. The hard disk had a capacity of 13 MB and the 5.25-inch floppy disk drive stored 640 kB.
The ABC 1656 was a 1600 model with a hard disc capacity of 40 MByte or 80 MByte instead.