• 1988

Hardware Description

The COMMODORE Colt is a 1988 machine, so its a post-Tramiel machine. It is based upon the INTEL 8088 at 4.77 Mhz.( or 7.16 Mhz. turbo). It has 640 kB. of RAM and has a PC-XT compatible BIOS with Autoconfig, which was quite an improvement. Monochrome screen, compatible with MDA, CGA, Hercules and Plantronics. Originally it had two 5.25 " floppy drives, but one has been exchanged for an 3.5 " 360 kB. disk drive that could be reconfigured to a 720 kB. one. Hard disk interface on the motherboard. Commodore 1352 mouse. Centronics parallel, RS 232 serial. Three expansion slots. OS: MS DOS 3.2