V I N T A G E   C O M P U T E R     ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------                              0101000100100100011011011001100001000111100011010101100   110101110100111010101010                                     100111110100011011000000101001111011001100100011011011001  1011100101101001100110101                                   000011111100111011100111111001010100110001010111000110110  010001111111011001100001010                                  100000101010101101001001101101101111100111010011111001110  0111110100000110010001101100                                 001010010101000101000111011001100101010011100000010111100 011110001011011011000110011000                               100010000110111000010001011000110000011100111101111101011  0110110011101011111111111011010                              111001101100111110101010010000101011110111010011101100010  10010100000110010111000110111010                                                   100100111101111010                  1101001000011111100010110001001101                                                  001100111101111010                  001100101111111000  010100110110101                                                 11001000101110010                   011010110111000100   111100010111001                                               000100011010110001                  010100111001100000     111111011111100                                              101100010000110010                  001010000110011110      101011001100010                                            001011100111110001                   110101101010010110       000001110111001                                           100110010010011101                  001100011101001111         100101011100001                                          101010100000000101                  101000011000110110          111000001001001                                        011000011101010101                  100000111101111101            110010001011111                                       011111001111011001                  000000110010110001             110100011100001                                     1001100110011100101                  10101000001111111100000100000101101111101111011                                    111010111000011000                  0110001011010010100110010000111111010000110100110                                   101100100001011100                  00000110010011110001101111011000001001010000010001                                 0101100001000000110                 0010011010000111010001001001110011111010000001100101                                010000100010110101                  00010010110001110111011011111010101101101011010101100                               110111110110000110                  011010011110000101                     110111000110011                             011101000101010010                  001111101010110111                       101111000010000                            011000000001110101                  001000001110100110                        110101000010001                          1101100111011011000                  110100001010101101                         101111010001101                          00110101101011111                   00011101100001100                           000011100011100                                                             T R I U M P H   A D L E R        ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------     T R I U M P H   A D L E R   T A   1 0 / 1       THE TRIUMPH ADLER TA 10 IS AN ACCOUNTING SYSTEM / OFFICE COMPUTER. IT WAS USED FOR SMALL AND MID SIZE COMPANIES TO HANDLE ALL SORT OF ACCOUNTING, ORGANIZATION, WRITING, ... JOBS. IT WAS THE COMBINATION OF A TA EUCONTA 70 ACCOUNTING MACHINE WITH A MORE OR LESS FREELY PROGRAMMABLE COMPUTER. ALTHOUGH THE TA 10 WAS A BIG SUCCESS FOR TRIUMPH ADLER (OVER 30.000 UNITS WERE SOLD), NOT SO MANY SURVIVED. I AM LOOKING FOR ANY INFORMATION AND PARTS FOR THE TA 10! PLEASE REPORT ALSO ANY KNOWN SURVIVORS TO ME!       ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------     S P E C I F I C A T I O N       --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  | BRAND/ MODEL:              | TRIUMPH ADLER TA 10/1                                                                 |   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  | CATEGORY                   | ACCOUNTING SYSTEM  / OFFICE COMPUTER                                                  |  | CONSTRUCTION DESIGN        | TYPEWRITER I/O WITH THE ElECTRONICS WITHIN A SUITCASE OR BUILT INTO A DESK            |  | PRODUCTION PERIOD          | 1971 - 1975                                                                           |  | WORD SIZE/ BUS WIDTH       | 4 BIT ALU, 8 BIT ADDRESS, 6 BIT OPERATIONS                                            |  | PROCESSOR(S)               | TTL LOGIC                                                                             |  | MEMORY RAM                 | 64 + 16 BYTES STATIC MOS SHIFT REGISTERS                                              |  | MEMORY ROM                 | 1024 X 14 BIT (= 512 PROGRAM STEPS/ COMMANDS) DIODE MATRIX, 384 STEPS USED            |  | INTERNAL STORAGE           | NONE                                                                                  |  | INPUT(S)                   | TYPEWRITER STYLE KEYBOARD (MAGNETIC CONTACTS UNDER TYPEWRITER)                        |  | OUTPUT(S)                  | TYPEWRITER / TYPEBAR PRINTER (MAGNET CONTROLLED TYPEWRITER)                           |  | ADDITIONAL PERIPHERALS     | PUNCH TAPE                                                                            |  | INTERFACES                 | PUNCH TAPE INTERFACE                                                                  |  | OPERATING SYSTEM           | MICROCODE                                                                             |  | MISCELLANEOUS              |                                                                                       |  | REMARKS                    |                                                                                       |   - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -   | ORIGINALLY PURCHASED:      | N/A                                                                                   |  | SERIAL NUMBER              | TYPE FEK 1, FABR.NR. DC 1270                                                          |  | MADE / ASSEMBLED IN        | WESTERN GERMANY                                                                       |  | CURRENT CONDITION          | UNKNOWN                                                                               |  | CURRENT OS                 | MICROCODED PROGRAMS IN DIODE MATRIX                                                   |  | FURTHER SOFTWARE           | NONE                                                                                  |  | REMARKS                    |                                                                                       |   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  | PICTURES/ DOCUMENTS        | MY TA 10/1 - OVERALL VIEW                                                             |   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------       BACK TO TOP     ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------     D O C U M E N T A T I O N ,   R E S T O R A T I O N    A N D   R E A N I M A T I O N     B L O G   O F   M Y   T A   1 0 / 1        --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  | 2014-12-20 | BOUGHT AT KIJIJI                                                                                      |   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  | 2015-01-21 | ITEM WAS SHIPED                                                                                       |  |            | BROUGHT IT TO ITS CURRENT LOCATION (2ND FLOOR) - TWO PARCELS!                                         |   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  | 2015-01-22 | I WAS TOO CORIOUS NOT TO OPEN THE CPU CASE, TO EXAMINE THE BOARDS AND GOT SOME SURPRISES...           |  |            | I ALSO GOT THE USER MANUAL AND SOFTWARE DESCRIPTION OF ALL EXISTING (NOT INSTALLED) PROGRAMS.         |  |            | FROM THIS I KNOW, WHICH BOARD HAS WHICH FUNCTION:                                                     |  |            | POSITION 1: INPUT/ OUTPUT BOARD (W = ??)                                                              |  |            | POSITION 2: CPU AND MEMORY BOARD (R = RECHNER UND SPEICHER)                                           |  |            | POSITION 3: CONTROL BOARD (L = LEITWERK)                                                              |  |            | POSITION 4: PROGRAM BOARD, SURPRISE: DIODE MATRIX WITH 74154 DECODERS - NO E-PROMS                    |  |            | POSITION 5: PROGRAM BOARD, DIODE MATRIX - SURPRISE: HALF UNUSED                                       |  |            | THE TA 10/1 HAS JUST THE HALF NUMBER OF FREE REGISTERS IN COMPARISION TO THE TA 10/4, SO I THOUGHT IT |  |            | JUST HAST TWO INSTEAD OF FOUR SL-7-2128 MOS SHIFT REGISTERS.                                          |  |            | BUT IT HAS FOUR (?) SL-6-2050 (DUAL 50 BIT STATIC MOS SHIFT REGISTER IN NICE TO-8 HOUSINGS).          |  |            | ACCORDING TO THE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS OF THE MANUAL, THE TA 10/1 HAS                              |  |            | - 1 INPUT/ CALUCLATE REGISTER WITH 16 DECIMAL DIGITS                                                  |  |            | - 1 OUTPU REGISTER WITH 16 DECIMAL DIGITS                                                             |  |            | - 1 ACCUMULATOR REGISTER WITH 16 DECIMAL DIGITS                                                       |  |            | - 7 FREE REGISTERS WITH 14 DECIMAL DIGITS PLUS SIGN                                                   |   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------       BACK TO TOP     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