Computers from 1986
List of personal computers that came on the market last year 1986.
List of personal computers that came on the market last year 1986.
This is an improved version of the 128. Designed with a separate keyboard and a plastic casing for the CPU unit, it featured an integrated 1571 disk drive and a fan for cooling.
This model was sold primarily in Europe.
Evolution of the Atmos, which included a 3" floppy disk drive, MIDI connector, and Minitel connector.
This computer arrived in Spain thanks to Mabel.
The Macintosh Plus is the third model in the Macintosh line. It was based on the case of the 128K and 512K Macintoshes with a 9-inch display (512x342 pixels, monochrome), but with more memory (1 MB, expandable to 4 MB), a larger ROM (128 KB instead of 64 KB), and a SCSI interface, through which external hard drives and data exchange drives could be connected, as well as a SCSI Ethernet adapter. The case was initially beige in color and later became available in platinum gray.
A clone of the IBM-PC AT.
In 1986, Inves manufactured its first "IBM-compatible" PC, the first PC manufactured in Spain, and distributed by El Corte Inglés.
It could be purchased with a color (CM) or monochrome (MM) monitor.
And with floppy disk drives for low-density (PC1512SD) or double-density (PC1512DD) disks.
This computer initially didn't have a hard drive, but one could be included. Its floppy disk drives could also be replaced with high-density ones.
The keyboard:
When Amstrad manufactured the PC1512 in 1986, it was careful to avoid any conflict with IBM and made sure not to infringe any of IBM's patents on the IBM PC. In fact, there were very few patents registered other than the keyboard interface.
Therefore, Amstrad designed a new keyboard interface that was quite different (and therefore incompatible) with the IBM interface. The connector and protocols were different, so an Amstrad keyboard cannot be used (even with an adapter) with an IBM PC, or vice versa.
The proprietary keyboard interface was used on all machines in the 1000, 2000, 3000 and 4000 series. Later (from the 5000 series onwards), Amstrad followed what had become common practice and switched to the IBM PS/2 keyboard interface.
This was an update to the previous model, the PC1512, which increased the RAM to 640 KB and incorporated EGA graphics.
There was a version with a dual 5.5-inch floppy disk drive or a hard drive (PC1640HD20).
After the company was sold to Amstrad, the company began producing this model, based on the ROM of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum 128 model, and similar in appearance to it, but incorporating a cassette drive.
The +2A and +2B variants, produced in Taiwan and China, respectively, did not include the disk drive controller circuit.
The Compaq Portable II is the fourth product in the Compaq Portable series to be released by Compaq Computer Corporation in 1986 at a price of $3499.
PC-AT compatible made in France.