There is always a first time, and thus it is when you touch a computer for the very first time. For me, this neither was a C64, nor an Amiga, nor an Atari, but a

Personal Computer robotron 1715

(108 k) Mind the difference: the first computer I touched (not the first computer I owned !!!), as the 1715 appeared to be the first personal computer at my dad's office about ten years ago.

A microprocessor U 880 served as CPU, and the whole wonderthing worked with 64k RAM at maximum. However, Intel was not definitely outside, as a KR 580 WG 75 (Intel 8275) did its job as CRT-Controller.

The computer came with two floppy drives (8'' or 5.25'' - the one at my dad's office was equipped with two 5.25'' drives. Note that the price of one single DD-floppy was about fourty (40!!!) marks.) and run the 8 bit operating system SCP .

As far as I remember, a nine-needle-lineprinter was attached to "my dad's" 1715 where his daughter happily produced wastepaper with a little help from the textprocessor TP , the calculation program KP , or the dbase-clone REDABAS.

Fair enough, to whom this all above sounds a bit strange - here comes the solution: The robotron 1715 was manufactured by VEB Robotron Büromaschinenwerk "Ernst Thälmann" in Sömmerda/GDR.

The picture was taken from "Der Personalcomputer 1715", Verlag Die Wirtschaft Berlin 1987.

created: 08/08/96

last update: 09/08/96

by Patricia Jung