leif@erix.UUCP (Leif Samuelsson) (05/24/84)
CANDELA is a new micro built around the 6809 processor.
It is aimed for labs in schools and industry who deal with
measuring and data acquisition.
I doubt that it will be sold outside of Scandinavia, but I
submit the specs to the net as a piece of trivia.
Base Configuration
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- 128 kbytes RAM.
- Built in 3" floppy, 360 kbytes formatted.
- OS-9 Operating System.
- BASIC-09 in ROM, enhanced with data acquisition commands.
- Assembler in ROM.
- High resolution color graphics.
(512x256 pixels. 16 colors selected from a palette of 255).
- 2 serial ports, RS232C.
- 2x8 bit parallell ports.
- ADC, 8 channels, 8 or 13 bits, 1 us or 5 ms.
- DAC, 2 channels, 8 bits.
- RGB and Video outputs.
- Full keyboard with numeric pad and pi-key (!?)
- 40/64/80 characters per line.
Options
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- Up to 1.1 Mbyte RAM. (With RAM-disk capabilities).
- Pascal, Forth, C, and cross assemblers in PROM.
- EPROM programming card.
- IEEE/IEC bus interface.
- External floppy.
- CMOS RAM with battery backup.
- Flex-09 Operating system.
Candela is sold in Sweden for around $1400 by:
Liber Teknikutbildning
Norrangsgatan 2
S-733 00 SALA
SWEDEN
Phone ..46 224 18050
And in Norway by:
UNICOM A/S
Mollergatan 12
Oslo 1
NORWAY
Phone ..47 2 426940
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STOCKHOLM
SWEDEN
Disclaimer: I am not in any way affiliated with any of the above
mentioned companies, nor have I any interest in the products
other than as a customer.