ABC 80
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Summary
In 1970 Lars Karlsson founded the company Dataindustrier AB (DIAB), which initially designs hardware extensions. In January 1978, a meeting at the Esso Hotel in Linköping fundamentally changed the Swedish computer landscape: DIAB designed a home computer built by Luxor in Motala (Sweden) and marketed by Scandia Metric, a manufacturer of measuring instruments and industrial computers. The result is the Advanced BASIC Computer 80 (ABC 80). The device uses Zilog’s widely used Z80 CPU on 3 MHz.
The advertising promises “a computer for education, home and hobby” (Swedish: “en dator för utbildning, hem och hobby). In the first two years, Sweden’s first home computer sells over 10,000 copies. At ABC 80, many Swedes gain their first experience with the programming language BASIC.
Five more home computers appeared in the ABC series, including the ABC 800, the direct successor to the ABC 80. The company continued to manufacture Unix computers into the 90s.
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