NAME  

ORIC 1

MANUFACTURER  

Oric

TYPE  

Home Computer

ORIGIN  

United Kingdom

YEAR  

1983

END OF PRODUCTION  

Unknown

BUILT IN LANGUAGE  

Oric Extended Basic v1.0

KEYBOARD  

Chicklet keyboard, 57 keys. ESC, DEL ,CTRL, 2 x SHIFT, RETURN, 4 x arrow keys and one large spacebar

CPU  

6502A

SPEED  

1 MHz

CO-PROCESSOR  

Custom gate array chip

RAM  

16 KB or 48 KB

ROM  

16 KB

TEXT MODES  

40 x 28

GRAPHIC MODES  

240 x 200 (high resolution)

COLORS  

8

SOUND  

Programmable Sound Generator AY-3-8912 (from General Instruments)
3 voices, 8 octaves + white noise

SIZE / WEIGHT  

28 (W) x 17.8 (D) x 1.5 (H) cm / 848 g

I/O PORTS  

Bus, Printer, Tape, RGB

POWER SUPPLY  

External power supply unit

PERIPHERALS  

4-pen plotter printer, 3'' floppy disk drive unit

PRICE  

ё129.95 for 16K model with starter pack (UK 1983)

 

Oric 1

Oric 1


 This British computer was one of the most popular computers in Europe in the beginning of the 80's. It was a small computer, which was a competitor of the Sinclair Spectrum.

The two models (16 and 48) had the same technical characteristics. A small plotter was available for this computer.

Notice that the sound chip was the


same one used in the Amstrad CPC, MSX computers and Atari ST!

Its ROM was very buggy, & was later replaced with the Oric Atmos.