ID Tangerine Oric Telestrat
Short Name
Name Oric Telestrat
Company Tangerine
Description The Oric Telestrat is the successor of the Oric 1 and Oric Atmos with which it is compatible. It was launched some months after Oric was bought by Eur?ka, a French company in 1985.
It was designed especially for telecommunications, like the Goupil 2, the Thomson TO-9+ or the Exeltel. It was designed to be used with the Minitel (French videotext terminal): it has a special ROM (8 KB) enabling the Telestrat to act as a videotext server.
A 3" floppy disk drive was available (400 KB) which run under StradSED (the Oric operating system, compatible with the old Oric DOS).
Several ROM cartridges were developed for this machine: Midi software (unreleased), Hyper Basic (compiled basic), Telematic Basic (designed for telecommunications), etc...
Date Available 1986
Type Computer
Emulators
Alternate Names Tangerine Oric Telestrat
Links
Matches tosec Tangerine Oric Telestrat - Applications - [DSK]
tosec Tangerine Oric Telestrat - Demos - [DSK]
tosec Tangerine Oric Telestrat - Games - [DSK]
tosec Tangerine Oric Telestrat - Operating Systems - [DSK]
oldcomputers 235
tosec Tangerine Oric Telestrat - Applications - [DSK]
{
    "id": "Tangerine Oric Telestrat - Applications - [DSK]",
    "name": "Tangerine Oric Telestrat - Applications - [DSK]",
    "altNames": [
        "Tangerine Oric Telestrat"
    ]
}
tosec Tangerine Oric Telestrat - Demos - [DSK]
{
    "id": "Tangerine Oric Telestrat - Demos - [DSK]",
    "name": "Tangerine Oric Telestrat - Demos - [DSK]",
    "altNames": [
        "Tangerine Oric Telestrat"
    ]
}
tosec Tangerine Oric Telestrat - Games - [DSK]
{
    "id": "Tangerine Oric Telestrat - Games - [DSK]",
    "name": "Tangerine Oric Telestrat - Games - [DSK]",
    "altNames": [
        "Tangerine Oric Telestrat"
    ]
}
tosec Tangerine Oric Telestrat - Operating Systems - [DSK]
{
    "id": "Tangerine Oric Telestrat - Operating Systems - [DSK]",
    "name": "Tangerine Oric Telestrat - Operating Systems - [DSK]",
    "altNames": [
        "Tangerine Oric Telestrat"
    ]
}
oldcomputers 235
{
    "type_id": 1,
    "id": 235,
    "pages": {
        "photos": "photos.asp?t=1&c=235&st=1",
        "adverts": "photos.asp?t=2&c=235&st=1",
        "hardware": "hardware.asp?t=1&c=235&st=1",
        "software": "software.asp?t=2&c=235&st=1",
        "links": "links.asp?c=235&st=1",
        "docs": "docs.asp?c=235&st=1",
        "comments": "forum.asp?c=235&st=1"
    },
    "image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/oric_telestrat_2.jpg",
    "company_link": "company.asp?st=1&m=98",
    "company_name": "Oric",
    "company_logo": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/logos/oric_logo_2.gif",
    "description": "The Oric Telestrat is the successor of the <a href=\"computer.asp?c=180\">Oric 1</a> and <a href=\"computer.asp?c=79\">Oric Atmos</a> with which it is compatible. It was launched some months after Oric was bought by Eur?ka, a French company in 1985.\nIt was designed especially for telecommunications, like the <a href=\"computer.asp?c=131\">Goupil 2</a>, the <a href=\"computer.asp?c=240\">Thomson TO-9+</a> or the <a href=\"computer.asp?c=521\">Exeltel</a>. It was designed to be used with the Minitel (French videotext terminal): it has a special ROM (8 KB) enabling the Telestrat to act as a videotext server.\nA 3\" floppy disk drive was available (400 KB) which run under StradSED (the Oric operating system, compatible with the old Oric DOS).\nSeveral ROM cartridges were developed for this machine: Midi software (unreleased), Hyper Basic (compiled basic), Telematic Basic (designed for telecommunications), etc...\n<a href=\"doc.asp?c=235\"><img src=\"graphs/readmore.gif\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"4\"></a>",
    "name": "TELESTRAT",
    "manufacturer": "Oric",
    "type": "Home Computer",
    "origin": "France",
    "year": "1986",
    "built_in_language": "None (Basic on cartridge)",
    "keyboard": "AZERTY mechanical keyboard<br>57 keys",
    "cpu": "MOS 6502",
    "speed": "1 Mhz",
    "ram": "64 kb",
    "rom": "48 kb",
    "text_modes": "40 x 28",
    "graphic_modes": "240 x 200",
    "colors": "8",
    "sound": "AY-3-8912 chipset; 3 channels, 8 octaves",
    "size_weight": "34,8 x 26 x 7,1 cm",
    "io_ports": "RGB video output (Scart), Parallel / Centronics port, Serial RS232s port, 2 Joystick sockets (Atari standard), Tape-recorder, Disk-drive port, Midi sockets, Expansion port (same as Atmos), Minitel plug (serial 1200/75 bauds)",
    "built_in_media": "Disk-drive controller built-in, for Microdisc 3'' disk drive",
    "os": "Stratsed (Sedoric compatible)",
    "peripherals": "Diskdrive, printers, cartridges, ...",
    "price": "608 <img src=\"/site/graphs/euro.gif\" align=\"bottom\"> (France, september 86)<br>907 <img src=\"/site/graphs/euro.gif\" align=\"bottom\"> with color monitor (France, september 86)",
    "photos": [
        {
            "name": "Side view ",
            "image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/oric_telestrat.jpg",
            "description": ""
        },
        {
            "name": "Complete configurati... ",
            "image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/oric_telestrat_complet.jpg",
            "description": "A Telestrat working and linked to a Minitel (french videotext terminal) and with its Microdisc disk-drive."
        },
        {
            "name": "In action... ",
            "image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/oric_telestrat_complet2.jpg",
            "description": "A Telestrat with 2 catridges plugged-in (Hyper Basic and Telematic) and emulating a videotext display."
        }
    ],
    "adverts": [
        {
            "image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/adverts/oric_telestrat_pub1a.jpg",
            "name": "French advert."
        }
    ],
    "hardware": [
        {
            "name": "Microdisc3'' disk-drive (400k)",
            "image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/hardware/oric_telestrat_microdisc.jpg",
            "description": "&gt;&nbsp;3'' disk-drive (400k)<br>3\" Double-sided disk drive with a capacity of 400k<br>\nCould load 20k in 1 seconde, which was quite fast at that time.<br><br>\nThe name of the operating system was Stratsed and was somehow compatible with the Sedoric (Atmos OS)\n<br><br>\nThe disk controller was built-in the Telestrat, thus only \"slave\" disk drives had to be bought (1800fr each in 86)."
        }
    ],
    "links": [
        {
            "url": "http://www.troude.com/Pinky/Index.html-ssi",
            "name": "Pinky",
            "description": "History of server powered by a Telestrat ! With pix (french)"
        }
    ]
}