Portal[1] R2E CCMC was a portable microcomputer designed and marketed by the studies and developments department of the French firm R2E[2] Micral and officially appeared in September 1980 at the Sicob[3] show in Paris.[4] The Osborne 1 was released eight months later, in April 1981.[5] specializing in payroll and accounting.
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| Developer | François Gernelle |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer | R2E Micral |
| Type | Portable computer |
| Release date | September 1980 |
| Media | floppy disk |
| Operating system | Prologue |
| CPU | Intel 8085 @ 2 MHz |
| Memory | 64 kB RAM |
| Power | 220-volt |
| Dimensions | 45 × 45 × 15 cm |
| Mass | 12 kg |
Several hundred examples were sold between 1980 and 1983.
Extremely rare, no museum has a Portal; two are in private collections.[6][7]
The company R2E Micral is also known to have designed "the earliest commercial, non-kit computer based on a microprocessor", the Micral N,[8] one of the last examples of which was sold for 62,000 euros to Paul G. Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft (with Bill Gates), by the auctioneer Rouillac on June 11, 2017, for Allen's Seattle museum, Living Computer Museum + Labs.[9][10][7]
Specifications[11]Edit
The Portal was based on an Intel 8085 processor, 8-bit, clocked at 2 MHz.[1]
It was equipped with 64 kB of main RAM, a keyboard with 58 alphanumeric keys and 11 numeric keys (in separate blocks), a 32-character screen, a floppy disk (capacity - 140000 characters), a thermal printer (speed - 28 characters/second), an asynchronous channel, a synchronous channel, and a 220-volt power supply. Designed for an operating temperature of 15 °C to 35 °C, it weighed 12 kg and its dimensions were 45 × 45 × 15 cm. It provided total mobility.
See alsoEdit
- R2E Micral
- Laptop#History
ReferencesEdit
- ^ a b "R2E Portal". www.system-cfg.com. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
- ^ "System.cfg - Base de données". www.system-cfg.com. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
- ^ "Portal au Sicob". blog.museeinformatique.fr. Archived from the original on 2017-08-16. Retrieved 2017-07-13.
- ^ Lilen, Henri. la saga du micro-ordinateur.
- ^ "Pièce comptable Portal". Archived from the original on 2017-08-16.
- ^ ROUILLAC, Aymeric (2017-08-21). "Cet exemplaire en état de marche sera vendu aux enchères le 22 septembre 2017".
- ^ a b "Vente aux enchères du Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré à Tours" (PDF). 21 August 2017.
- ^ "R2E Micral N". www.system-cfg.com. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
- ^ "The Micral N, the First Microcomputer, to be Sold at Auction in June - Life in France". Life in France. 2017-05-13. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
- ^ "C'est maintenant officiel : Paul G.... - Aymeric Rouillac | Facebook".
- ^ "Plaquette Portal". blog.museeinformatique.fr. Archived from the original on 2017-08-16. Retrieved 2017-07-13.
BibliographyEdit
François Gernelle, Portal designer
SourcesEdit
This article is partially derived from the page of old-computers.com and feb-patrimoine.com.