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Thomson computers

October 21, 2023

In the 1980s the French Thomson company produced a range of 8-bit computers based on the 6809E CPU.[1]

Thomson TO7 computer on display at the Musée Bolo, Lausanne

They were released in several variations (mostly concerning the keyboard or color of the casing) covering the MO and TO series[2] from late 1982 to 1989. While MO and TO models are incompatible in software, most of the peripherals and hardware were compatible.

These machines were common in France due to the 1980s governmental educational program Computing for All (Informatique pour Tous).[3][4][5] Around 100,000 MO5 and TO7/70 computers were ordered and installed in schools.[6] Export attempts to Germany, Italy, Algeria, USSR, India, Argentina and Spain were unsuccessful.

It is reported that there were 450,000 Thomson computers in France in 1986.[7] By 1988 Thomson had only sold 60,000 of the predicted 150,000 computers, abandoning computer development the following year.[6]

About 84 games were released for the TO7,[8][9] 194 for the MO5,[10][11] 3 for the TO7/70,[12] 10 for the TO9,[13] 21 for the MO6,[14][15] and 128 for the TO8.[16][17] Most titles were released between 1984 and 1987 and by French companies such as Infogrames, Loriciel, FIL or Coktel Vision.[18][19]

First generation Edit

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    Thomson MO5

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    Thomson MO5 "Michel Platini" edition

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    Thomson TO7

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    Thomson TO7-70

Second generation Edit

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    Thomson TO9

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    Thomson MO6

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    Thomson TO9+

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    Thomson TO8D

Unix systems Edit

The Micromega was fundamental on the adoption of Unix by the French government, due to the localization of the Unix operating system. According to Dominique Maisonneuve, a Unix developer at CERG (Paris): "It was thanks to the Micromega that the government became interested in installing Unix. What was needed, was some hardware with a French coloring.".[36]

PC compatible Edit

 
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See also Edit

References Edit

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In the 1980s the French Thomson company produced a range of 8 bit computers based on the 6809E CPU 1 Thomson TO7 computer on display at the Musee Bolo LausanneThey were released in several variations mostly concerning the keyboard or color of the casing covering the MO and TO series 2 from late 1982 to 1989 While MO and TO models are incompatible in software most of the peripherals and hardware were compatible These machines were common in France due to the 1980s governmental educational program Computing for All Informatique pour Tous 3 4 5 Around 100 000 MO5 and TO7 70 computers were ordered and installed in schools 6 Export attempts to Germany Italy Algeria USSR India Argentina and Spain were unsuccessful It is reported that there were 450 000 Thomson computers in France in 1986 7 By 1988 Thomson had only sold 60 000 of the predicted 150 000 computers abandoning computer development the following year 6 About 84 games were released for the TO7 8 9 194 for the MO5 10 11 3 for the TO7 70 12 10 for the TO9 13 21 for the MO6 14 15 and 128 for the TO8 16 17 Most titles were released between 1984 and 1987 and by French companies such as Infogrames Loriciel FIL or Coktel Vision 18 19 Contents 1 First generation 2 Second generation 3 Unix systems 4 PC compatible 5 See also 6 References 7 External linksFirst generation EditThomson TO7 produced from 1982 to 1984 Supplied with 24K RAM 16K used by the video and upgradable to 48K 8 color display 20 Thomson MO5 released in 1984 21 in order to honor the Computing for All Informatique pour Tous plan 22 Supplied with 48K RAM 32K available to user in BASIC 1 0 and first released with a rubber keyboard Later it featured a mechanical keyboard It was edited in a limited edition with a white casing named MO5 Michel Platini Thomson TO7 70 1984 version with more RAM 64K upgradable into 128K and 16 color display 23 Thomson MO5E 1985 export version with a different casing featuring a mechanical keyboard a parallel port two joystick ports an internal PAL modulator and an integrated power supply 24 nbsp Thomson MO5 nbsp Thomson MO5 Michel Platini edition nbsp Thomson TO7 nbsp Thomson TO7 70Second generation EditThomson TO9 released in late 1985 Separate keyboard and central unit 128K RAM and a 3 inch floppy disk drive 25 Thomson MO5NR released in 1985 1986 This is a MO6 in a MO5E casing with an integrated network interface controller the nanoreseau nano network which was used in French schools 26 27 Thomson TO16 prototype called Theodore TO d or 5 prototypes developed in 1985 1988 Based on a MC 68000 at 8 MHz and a rather good graphic card 28 29 30 Thomson MO6 released in 1986 128K RAM and built in tape recorder 31 Sold in Italy as the Olivetti Prodest PC128 32 Thomson TO8 released in late 1986 256K RAM 80K ROM with Microsoft BASIC 512 extra video modes 33 Thomson TO9 released in late 1986 Separate keyboard and central unit 512K RAM with a built in modem and a 3 inch floppy disk drive 34 Thomson TO8D released in late 1987 it was a TO8 with a 3 inch floppy disk drive 35 nbsp Thomson TO9 nbsp Thomson MO6 nbsp Thomson TO9 nbsp Thomson TO8DUnix systems EditThe Micromega was fundamental on the adoption of Unix by the French government due to the localization of the Unix operating system According to Dominique Maisonneuve a Unix developer at CERG Paris It was thanks to the Micromega that the government became interested in installing Unix What was needed was some hardware with a French coloring 36 Micromega 32 released in 1982 it was a Motorola 68000 based machine running Version 7 Unix 37 38 39 40 41 based on the Fortune 32 16 developed by Fortune Systems Corporation 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 It had a 68000 CPU clocked at 5 5 MHz and 256KB of RAM expandable to 1MB 50 The display was monochrome and text based An optional card enabled pixel graphics with a resolution of 800x480 Another expansion card added a Zilog Z80 CPU enabling the machine to run CP M External floppy drives or hard disks with sizes up to 20MB could be connected The RS232 port could be used for network connection The machine was presented to the public at the 1982 Salon des industries et du commerce de bureau SICOB in the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles 51 52 Aimed at business 53 54 and government departments 55 56 it was used in French hospitals 57 58 59 embassies 60 and scientific research 61 62 63 64 65 66 It was also sold in the Middle East 67 and Algeria 68 Micromega 32000 A 1986 Alcatel branded machine with a tower layout supporting Unix SV The CPU is a 68020 at 16 5 MHz 68881 optional with 1 to 4 MB of RAM It features a 70MB hard drive supports QIC 24 cartridges and offers Arcnet network connection 69 70 Micromega PC a 1986 workstation supporting Unix and MS DOS and developed based on the PC 7000 XP 69 Micromega SX and Micromega SX T These machines have a similar box but with a different floppy drive location The CPU is a 68000 at 11 MHz and RAM is expandable to 2 MB It supports 45 and 70 MB hard drives and QIC 11 cartridges on the SX T PC compatible EditMicromega 16 released in 1983 it was an IBM PC compatible machine similar to the Eagle PC developed in 1982 by Columbia Data Products 71 Thomson TO16 released in September 1987 Intel 8088 based IBM compatible PC 72 nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Thomson computers See also EditMicrosoft BASIC 1 0 A version of BASIC used on Thomson computers Thomson EF936x graphic chip used on Thomson computers Computing for All a French government plan to introduce computers to the country s pupilsReferences Edit OLD COMPUTERS COM The Museum Thomson Archived from the original on 25 February 2021 Thomson 8 bit computer emulation with MESS Ina fr Institut National de l Audiovisuel Plan informatique conference de presse Fabius Ina fr Pres du radiateur l ordinateur Les Echos October 2 1991 Le Nanoreseau sites google com Retrieved 2022 11 08 a b Thomson www obsolete tears com THOMSON JOUE LES LAPINS PDF Hebdogiciel Magazine 150 August 29 1986 Thomson TO7 video games Hardware entity Universal Videogame List Retrieved 2023 01 01 Listing of all Thomson TO7 games Page 1 The Video Games Museum Retrieved 2023 01 01 Thomson MO5 video games Hardware entity Universal Videogame List Retrieved 2023 01 01 Listing of all Thomson MO5 games Page 1 The Video Games Museum Retrieved 2023 01 01 Thomson TO7 70 video games Hardware entity Universal Videogame List Retrieved 2023 01 01 Thomson TO9 video games Hardware entity Universal Videogame List Retrieved 2023 01 01 Thomson MO6 video games Hardware entity Universal Videogame List Retrieved 2023 01 01 Listing of all Thomson MO6 games Page 1 The Video Games Museum Retrieved 2023 01 01 Thomson TO8 video games Hardware entity Universal Videogame List Retrieved 2023 01 01 Listing of all Thomson TO8 games Page 1 The Video Games Museum Retrieved 2023 01 01 Thomson Releases per year Universal Videogame List Retrieved 2023 01 01 Thomson Most common companies Universal Videogame List Retrieved 2023 01 01 Thomson TO7 www obsolete tears com Thomson MO5 MESS driver Wolf Mark J P May 27 2015 Video Games Around the World MIT Press ISBN 9780262527163 via Google Books Thomson TO7 70 MESS driver OLD COMPUTERS COM The Museum www old computers com Thomson TO9 www obsolete tears com Thomson MO5NR MESS driver Archived from the original on 2021 06 05 Le Nanoreseau sites google com Retrieved 2022 11 08 Specification du chip graphique Intel i82716 utilisee dans le prototype TO16 logicielsmoto com Thomson 16 bits forum system cfg com forum system cfg com Thomson TO16 forum system cfg com Thomson MO6 MESS driver Thomson MO6 www old computers com Thomson TO8 MESS driver Thomson TO9 December 27 2020 OLD COMPUTERS COM The Museum www old computers com International Multi user micro systems running on Unix are ideally suited for decision support applications PDF Datamation 88 4 July 1985 OLD COMPUTERS COM The Museum Thomson Micromega32 www old computers com Thomson Micromega 32 www silicium org Retrieved 2022 11 30 Thomson Micromega 32 www system cfg com Retrieved 2022 11 30 Holmes Lewis May 1982 Hanover power and electronics fare Electronics amp Power 28 5 368 doi 10 1049 ep 1982 0189 Etheridge James March 1984 FOREIGN VENTURES FOREIGN VENTURES TWO FOR THE ROAD PDF Datamation 84 115 32 16 Fortune www old computers com Retrieved 2022 11 30 Thomson Micromega 32 www silicium org Retrieved 2022 11 30 Fortune advert Fortune 32 16 Minicomputer Performance at Microcomputer Price nosher net Retrieved 2022 11 30 Fortune Systems Rare amp Old Computers 2016 06 05 Retrieved 2022 11 30 Enterprise I D G 1984 02 20 Computerworld IDG Enterprise Fortune 32 16 System Details The Freeman PC Museum Largest Collection of Vintage Computers On The Web www thepcmuseum net Retrieved 2022 12 01 Fortune 32 16 The Personal Computer Museum Brantford Ontario CANADA Recycle donate and browse your old computers electronics video games and software 2020 01 03 Archived from the original on 2020 01 03 Retrieved 2022 12 01 Kowalezyk R Morgant G Baumann F C Giboudeau J October December 1986 Biochemical laboratory management with a microcomputer PDF Journal of Automatic Chemistry 8 4 211 214 doi 10 1155 S146392468600041X PMC 2547677 PMID 18925140 Thomson Micromega 32 www silicium org Retrieved 2022 11 30 Thomson Micromega 32 www system cfg com Retrieved 2022 11 30 The Seybold Report on Office Systems Seybold Publications 1982 Ordinateurs Le Devoir 8 December 1982 p 20 Notes et etudes documentaires in French La Documentation Francaise 1988 Les Cahiers de l urbanisme in French Inspection generale de l amenagement du territoire de la Region wallonne 1988 ISBN 978 2 87009 337 5 Revue generale des routes et des aerodromes RGRA in French 1986 Billault B Degoulet P Devries C Aime F Attali J R Tchobroutsky G Cathelineau G Passa P April 1987 A computerized file for the surveillance of diabetic patients the MELLITEE system Diabete amp Metabolisme 13 2 129 134 ISSN 0338 1684 PMID 3595968 Zimmermann Marc Maisonblanche Pierre Cauchemez Bruno Leclercq Jean Francois Coumel Philippe 1 June 1986 Determinants of the spontaneous ectopic activity in repetitive monomorphic idiopathic ventricular tachycardia Journal of the American College of Cardiology 7 6 1219 1227 doi 10 1016 S0735 1097 86 80139 5 ISSN 0735 1097 PMID 2423570 S2CID 34476345 Roger F H Gronroos P Tervo Pellikka R O Moore R 6 December 2012 Medical Informatics Europe 85 Proceedings Helsinki Finland August 25 29 1985 Springer Science amp Business Media ISBN 978 3 642 93295 3 OLD COMPUTERS COM The Museum Thomson Micromega32 www old computers com Medieval Prosopography Medieval Institute Publications Western Michigan University 1988 Kimberley Robert 1990 Text Retrieval A Directory of Software Gower ISBN 978 0 566 03642 2 McCrank Lawrence J 1989 Databases in the Humanities and Social Sciences 4 Proceedings of the International Conference on Databases in the Humanities and Social Sciences Held at Auburn University at Montgomery July 1987 Learned Information ISBN 978 0 938734 37 6 Corti Laura 1988 SN G Report on Data Processing Projects in Art Projects Scuola normale superiore Jouannet Francis Bonetto Ch 1987 Modele informatise du traitement des tons domaine bantou in French Peeters Publishers ISBN 978 2 85297 204 9 Bornes Christian 1984 Les nouvelles technologies dans l information scientifique et technique cours INRIA in French INRIA ISBN 978 2 7261 0405 7 Middle East Computing Reed Business Publishing Developments a division of Business Press International 300 1985 Marches tropicaux et mediterraneens in French Rene Moreaux et Cie 1989 a b Micro Systemes n 75 mai 1987 Page 32 33 Micro Systemes n 75 mai 1987 Micro Systemes informatique grand public informatique et reseaux Sciences et Techniques 1001mags Magazines en PDF a 1 et GRATUITS fr 1001mags com Retrieved 2022 12 01 INFORMATIQUE 01 no 935 15 12 1986 Musee de la presse museedelapresse com Retrieved 2022 12 01 Thomson Micromega 16 www silicium org Retrieved 2022 12 01 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