Portal (computer)

Portal
Developer François Gernelle
Manufacturer R2E
Type Portable computer
Release date 1980 september
Operating system Prologue
CPU Intel 8085
Memory 64 KB RAM
Weight 12kg

Portal R2E CCMC was a portable microcomputer designed and marketed by the studies and developments department of the French firm R2E Micral and officially appeared in september 1980 at the Sicob[1] show in Paris [2]. That is almost 8 months before the release of the Osborne 1 American (April 1981).

The Portal was requested by CCMC company[3] specializing in payroll and accounting.

A few hundred exemplairy have been sold between 1980 and 1983.

The company R2E Micral is also known to have designed "the earliest commercial, non-kit computer based on a microprocessor" the Micral N, whose one of the last exemplary was sold for 62,000 euros to a US bidder in Seattle by the auctioneer Rouillac on June 11, 2017[4].

Specifications [5]

The Portal was based on an Intel 8085 processor, 8-bit, clocked at 2 MHz.

It was equipped with a central 64K byte Ram, a keyboard with 58 alpha numeric keys and 11 numeric keys (separate blocks), a 32-character screen, a floppy disk: capacity = 140 000 characters, of a thermal printer: speed = 28 characters / second, an asynchronous channel, a synchronous channel, a 220V power supply. Designed for an operating temperature of 15°C to 35°C, it weighed 12Kg and its dimensions were 45cm x 45cm x 15cm. It provided total mobility.

References

  1. ↑ "Portal au Sicob". blog.museeinformatique.fr.
  2. ↑ Lilen, Henri. la saga du micro-ordinateur.
  3. ↑ "Pièce comptable Portal". blog.museeinformatique.fr.
  4. ↑ "La vente aux enchères au Château d'Artigny a rapporté plus de quatre millions d'euros". La Nouvelle République. 13 June 2017.
  5. ↑ "Plaquette Portal". blog.museeinformatique.fr.

See also

R2E Micral

Bibliography

François Gernelle, Portal designer.

Sources

This article is partially derived from the page of old-computers.com and feb-patrimoine.com.

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