L’ABC 110 aveva essenzialmente le stesse caratteristiche tecniche della Cambridge Workstation ABC 210 a parte il processore principale, che era una scheda Z80 anziché la scheda 32016. Aveva anche un disco rigido da 10 MB anziché 20 MB.

SCHEDA TECNICA

NAME   ABC 110
MANUFACTURER   Acorn Computer
TYPE   Professional Computer
ORIGIN   United Kingdom
YEAR   October 1984
END OF PRODUCTION   mid 1985, never reached full production
BUILT IN LANGUAGE   BBC Basic, Pandora (BIOS)
KEYBOARD   Standard QWERTY, 10 function keys + arrows, plus numeric keypad and Tube switch
CPU   Z80
SPEED   Unknown
CO-PROCESSOR   MOS 65C02 (I/O board, essentially a BBC B+)
RAM   Unknown
VRAM   Taken from main RAM, up to 44K?
ROM   32K, expandable
TEXT MODES   80 x 32/25 (2 colors) / 40 x 32/25 (2 or 4 colors) / 20 x 32 (16 colors) / 40 x 25 (Teletext display)
GRAPHIC MODES   640 x 256 (2 colors) / 320 x 256 (4 colors) / 160 x 256 (16 colors)
COLORS   16 (8 colors + flashing option)
SOUND   3 channels + noise & envelope control, 7 octaves, optional TMS5220 speech
SIZE / WEIGHT   A little larger than a 17” monitor!
I/O PORTS   1MHz BUS, Analogue, RGB, Disk, RS423, Mouse (option), BT Link (option; modem?), User port, Econet, internally SCSI may be available
BUILT IN MEDIA   10Mb SCSI-MFM HD subsystem, 5.25” FD
OS   BBC MOS, Pandora, CP/M?
POWER SUPPLY   Built-in PSU, 240V AC
PERIPHERALS   Most BBC accessories are suitable
PRICE   Unknown

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