Amust Computer Corp

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The Amust Executive 816 “briefcase computer” was the first Australian portable computer and came in a Samsonite briefcase. It was made in the Compak Corporation manufacturing facility in Moorabbin, Victoria, Australia

The Executive 816 is a powerful business system and comes to you complete with a large range of ready-to-run business software including: Debtors, stock control, creditors, general ledger word processing, database, mail merging, supercalc spreadsheet, membership, office costing, job costing, & communications. The standard 816 has twin 5.25" floppy disk drives each with an 800 Mbytes capacity. Also available is a full 10 MEGABYTES version.

Specifications

Z-80 4MHz CPU

64Kb RAM memory

5" Double Sided Double Density Disk Drives of 2x800Kb approx. Provision for the addition of 2 more 8" or 5.25" Drives.

5" inbuilt CRT display

Terminal - ADM-3A with inverse video.

80 x 25 screen

Upper & Lowercase character display

Centronics Printer port

2 x RS-232 Serial Ports

External CRT composite video port

Operating System: CP/M 2.2