ComPAN 8

ComPAN 8 is an 8-bit Polish microcomputer produced in the 1980s at the MERA-ELZAB factory in Zabrze, Poland. ComPAN 8 was designed at the Institute of Industry Automation Systems PAN in Gliwice.[1][2]

Technical description

Processor: 8080A or 8085 2 MHz
Interrupt controller: 8 levels
Address bus: extended by 5 additional lines (A16..AA20), max. 2 MB of memory
RAM: 64 kB
ROM: 8 kB
Keyboard: 83 keys MERA 7926M with numerical part
Floppy disk controller: 8” or 5,25”
Interfaces: 2 x RS-232C, parallel port, printer interface circuit
Monochromatic display, divided into 2 (or 3) windows:
- system window: 4 lines, 80 characters on the bottom of the screen
- workspace window:
  - 24x80 characters – text mode
  - 30x80 Characters – graphical-text mode
  - 288x240 pixels – graphical mode
- additional system window (optional): 8 lines with 30 characters on the top of screen

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Software

Operation system:
- CP/M (more popular)
- ISIS-II
programming languages
- macroassembler
- Pascal
- Fortran
- PL/M (ISIS-II)

References

Komputery - www.nfsk.prv.pl - Notatnik Fana Starych Komputerów Archived 2008-03-02 at the Wayback Machine
Polish Computers Fan Site
"KOMPUTER" Magazine NR 7/1987

External links

Old computers magazine (polish)

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[1] Komputery - www.nfsk.prv.pl - Notatnik Fana Starych Komputerów Archived 2008-03-02 at the Wayback Machine

[2] Polish Computers Fan Site

[3] "KOMPUTER" Magazine NR 7/1987