ABC 800

ABC 800
Luxor ABC 800 computer in the collections of Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology
ManufacturerLuxor in Motala, Sweden
TypePersonal computer
Release date1981
Introductory price9,800 SEK (1982) (ex.VAT)
Operating system24 KB ROM for BASIC II
CPU8-bit Zilog Z80A @ 3 MHz
Memory32 KB ROM + 32 KB RAM
GraphicsText mode 80×24 colour Teletext, 78×75 block graphics or 240×240 at 2 bpp, 512×240 at 4 bpp, 256×240 at 4 bpp with red, green, blue, yellow, cyan, magenta, white and black
SoundBeep, within the keyboard
Connectivity2x serial (75 - 19,200 baud) DE-9, 2x32-pin eurocard 4680 bus connector, video DA-15, keyboard DIN-7

The Luxor ABC 800 series are office versions of the ABC 80 home computer. They featured an enhanced BASIC interpreter, and more memory: 32 kilobytes RAM and 32 KB ROM was now standard. The Z80 is clocked at 3 MHz. It featured 40×24 text mode with eight colors (ABC 800 C) or 80×24 text mode monochrome (ABC 800 M). They could also be extended with "high" resolution graphics (240×240 pixels at 2 bpp) using 16 KB RAM as video memory.