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NAME  

Enterprise 128

MANUFACTURER  

Enterprise Computers

TYPE  

Home Computer

ORIGIN  

United Kingdom

YEAR  

1985

DISCONTINUED

Unknown

BUILT IN LANGUAGE

IS Basic on ROM cartridge

KEYBOARD

Complete full-stroke keyboard with built-in joystick

CPU

Zilog Z80A

SPEED

4.0 MHz

COPROCESSOR

NICK (video), DAVE (sound)

RAM

128 KB

ROM  

32 KB

TEXT MODES 

40x24, 80x32, 80x64

GRAPHIC MODES 

Eight graphic modes: max - 672 x 512 (2 col), most used - 256 x 160 (16 col)

COLORS  

256 (in 180x80 graphics mode)

SOUND  

3 channels + 1 noise channel / 8 octaves

I/O PORTS 

RGB Video / Audio output, Expansion port, Tape Interface, Joystick (2), Cardridge slot, RS432 (Serial/Net), TV output, Printer

BUILT IN MEDIA 

None. External FDD

OS  

IS DOS, EXDOS

POWER SUPPLY 

External PSU

PRICE  

Unknown

 

Enterprise-128

Enterprise 64 and 128 were very long awaited computers. They been finally released two years after their announcement and marketing has started! They changed their name a lot of times. At first it was Elan, then Flan, and lastly Enterprise.

Both computers have great features, which were not found on most other home computers, like the interfaces, great graphics and sounds capabilities, which were provided by two special custom chips called "Nick" and "Dave".

BASIC Interpreter was supplied on a ROM cartridge and could be easily replaced with any other language. Supplied BASIC was a very powerful, structured basic with great graphic commands and could store simultaneously several programs in RAM. It has a small word processor in ROM and up to 32 computers can be linked together.

Several months later after Enterprise 64 launch, a new model was launched - Enterprise 128, which was nothing more than an Enterprise 64 with 128 KB RAM.

Despite its great characteristics and all its interfaces, Enterprise 64 and 128 were a flop in the marketplace. Unsold systems (nearly all of them), were sold to East-Europeans countries, and especially Hungary where they were a great success.


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