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Computermuseum: Soroc terminal

Status: publiek -- Laatste wijziging: 29 januari 2002

naar het echte museum

Soroc terminaal

screensize24 lines, 80 chars per lin
addressable cursor
Purchase Date 1978 till 1981
in use till1984 - 1986
Price 41650 BEF (1978) - 39860 BEF (1981)

The Soroc was built around a 1802 microprocessor, it had (at that time) a large number of features

When an Apollo rocket was launched, a student (now a respectable professor) implemented on a Soroc a moving launch (in ascii characters).

The main disadvantage of the Soroc's was their mechanical keyboard, After about three to four years the key repeat rate became untollerable.

The manual of a Soroc IQ 120 can be found on the site of Ben Mesander, who occasionally still uses a Soroc.

The name was formed from the letters in the popular beer "Coors" as the legend is told.

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