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RC700 Articles

This is a collection of articles and other material related to Regnecentralen RC700 hardware and software. Most of these articles are in Danish.

RC-INFO

RC-INFO was a regular newsletter from Regnecentralen in Datalærebladet, edited by Erling Schmidt. This contained the latest news about RC products with special focus on schools and education. This is an excellent source of historical information about the RC700.

RC-INFO November 1979: Reconstruction of Regnecentralen and introduction of RC701.
RC-INFO February 1980: Shipment of the first RC701 systems.
RC-INFO May 1980: Announcement of RC700 on the ISAK convention, August 25-29, 1980 in Fredericia.
RC-INFO September 1980: CP/M and UCSD Pascal for RC700.
RC-INFO November 1980: Kaj Riss appointed product manager for RC700. RC861 printer and RC752 monitor for RC700.
RC-INFO February 1981: First mention "PICCOLO", the nickname for RC700.
RC-INFO May 1981: COMAL-80 for RC700.
RC-INFO November 1981: SEM702 Programmable Character Generator.
RC-INFO February 1982: More about the Programmable Character Generator.
RC-INFO April 1983: Announcement of the new RC703.
RC-INFO September 1983: High-resolution raster graphics for RC700.
RC-INFO March 1984: Introduction of RC Piccoline.
RC-INFO December 1988: Survey of the highlight from RC-INFO from the past 10 years.
RC-7000 ÅREN, January 1973: Announcement of news letter for RC7000 users.

Design documents

Notes about RC701 prototype (RCMIC was the internal name for RC700 during development.)
RC701 design description: Handwritten notes from September 1979 by Knud Erik Hansen describing the proposed hardware for RC701.
RC702 design proposals (It looks like they went ahead with proposal number 3.)
Introduction to RC700 Micro-Computer System

Miscellaneous

RC700 prisliste 1983
RC763 Winchester Pladelager datablad
RC700 advertisment: I know for a fact that the story about the "RC700 drop" is true, because I was there when it happened. Just for the record, we did not drop the monitor on the floor, only the CPU unit.
Kommunevalget 1981 og DAKS: The story about the KV81 system in COMAL for RC702, which was used for the local elections in Aalborg in 1981.
Marathon programmering: Article from Datalærebladet about a COMAL system I made together with Jens Mortensen for keeping track of race results and medals for the 1981 Danish 20 km championship.
Piccoline-syndromet: Article by DR Viden about Regnecentralen Piccolo/Piccoline in the Danish schools in the 1980s.