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The ABC 80 (Advanced BASIC Computer 80) was a home computer that was developed by the Swedish company Dataindustrier AB . It was manufactured by Luxor in Motala , also in Sweden, in the 1970s and 1980s .
It was based on a 3.58 MHz clocked Z80 Zilog processor, each had 16 kB RAM and ROM , and a BASIC - interpreter . He also owned the sound chip SN76477 from Texas Instruments . However, there was no way to use all of the chip's functions, so the ABC's sound output was limited to a few sound effects. The monitor was a black and white television that was slightly modified for this purpose.
The device was also manufactured as "BRG ABC80" by Budapesti Rádiótechnikai Gyár in Hungary. However, these models were equipped with metal instead of plastic housings.
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The ABC 80 was a huge success in Sweden and quickly took up a large part of the home computer market there, partly because its software was available in Swedish.
In the early 1980s, the computer was replaced by game computers with better graphics and better sound.
For a few years, Luxor was able to establish itself among other office computers with the new ABC 800 , which had more memory and a higher graphic resolution.
In 1985 the new Unix- based ABC 1600 and the 9000 series hit the market, but these failed.