The Tatung Einstein was an eight bit home personal computer produced by Taiwanese corporation TATUNG but designed and assembled in England , at Telford. It was aimed primarily at small businesses.
The Einstein was released in the United Kingdom in the summer of 1984, and 5,000 were exported back to Taipei later that year. A Tatung monitor (monochrome or colour) and printer were also available as options.
The machine was physically large, with an option for one or two built-in three-inch floppy disk drives manufactured by Hitachi. At the time, most home computers used ordinary tape recorders for storage. Another unusual feature of the Einstein was that on start-up the computer entered a simple machine code monitor, called MOS (Machine Operating System). A variety of software could then be loaded from disk, including a CP/M -compatible operating system named Xtal, and a BASIC interpreter.
More expensive than most of its rivals (priced at ?499 for the computer alone without monitor), and lacking an obvious niche market other than technically-advanced home programmers, the Einstein was commercially unsuccessful.
Technical specifications
- CPU: Zilog Z80-A @ 4 Mhz
- RAM: 64 Kb system RAM; 16KB video RAM
- Video: 16 colors, 32 sprite planes
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