America's lowest-priced personal computer system with colour vector graphics
Written on April 30th, 2026 by Tech Ads
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NOW $2750.
AMERICAS LOWEST-PRICED
PERSONAL COMPUTER SYSTEM
WITH COLOR VECTOR GRAPHICS.
By taking advantage of the
new technologies available to
the industry today, we’ve con-
sistently been able to give you
one of the best prices on the
market. Now because of great
response, we can give you the
best price. You can now buy
the Compucolor 8001 for the
reduced price of $2750. A com-
plete stand-alone system with
expanded graphics software
for plotting points, vectors and
bargraphs on a 160 x 192
addressable grid — in color.
Eight independent background
and foreground colors.
The Compucolor 8001 has
an Intel 8080 CPU, 34 1/O
ports and a color display with
an effective band width of 75
MHZ compared to 5 MHZ for
standard T'V sets. In fact the
Compucolor is the only totally
integrated system on the mar-
ket which includes a color
display. You can also have spe-
cial options for the Compucolor
8001 right now, including: Mini
Disk Drives for extra memory,
light pens and a variety of
special keyboard features.
BASIC 8001 Is Easy To Learn.
Compucolor’s BASIC 8001 is
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a conversational programming
language which uses English-
type statements and familiar
mathematical notations. It’s
simple to learn and easy to use,
too. Especially when it comes
to intricate manipulations or
expressing problems more
efficiently. The BASIC 8001
Interpreter runs in ROM mem-
ory and includes 26 statement
types, 18 mathematical func-
tions, 9 string functions and 7
command types for executing,
loading, saving, erasing, con-
tinuing, clearing or listing the
program currently in core.
Expandable Memory To 64K.
The Compucolor 8001 has 11K
bytes of non-destructible read-
only memory which handles
the CPU and CRT operating
systems as well as BASIC
8001. Sockets are in place for
an additional 21K of EPROM/
MROM memory. The Random
Access Main Memory has 8K
bytes for screen refresh and
scratch pad, 8K bytes for user
workspace and room for 16K
bytes of additional user work-
space. The Compucolor also
comes complete with a conve-
nient mass storage device,
Floppy Tape Memory. It’s an
8-track continuous loop tape
system, with a Baud rate of
4800 and an extra storage
capacity of up to 1024K bytes
per tape.
Color Graphics At
Alphanumeric Black And
White Prices.
That’s what we’re becoming
famous for, and thanks to the
tremendous response to the
Compucolor 8001, we’ve been
able to reduce our price even
lower —to $2750. Look over
our dealer listing on the adja-
cent page for the dealer nearest
you. Then drop by for a dem-
onstration. And while you’re
checking out the Compucolor
8001, check out your dealer’s
financing plan. He can help you
turn a good deal into a good
deal more.
Compucolor Corporation,
P.O. Box 569, Norcross,
Georgia 30091.
Compucolor Corporation
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‘America’s lowest-priced personal computer system with colour vector graphics’
The Compucolour 8001 was an Intel 8080-based microcomputer with 4KB (max 32KB) of memory and a 160 x 192 pixel 8 colour display. Permanent storage was provide by an 8-tracked based continuous-lopped based tape system capable of storing up to 1024KB per tape.
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