Prológica Indústria e Comércio de Microcomputadores, commonly shortened to Prológica, was an influential Brazilian microcomputer company that reached its peak in the mid-1980s, when it ranked third among national companies in the sector.
History
Founded in 1976, the company initially commercialized machines for accounting use, namely the MCA-100 and Alpha Disk. The first models had an Intel 8080 processor, and in the early months the company even managed to get a partnership with Olivetti.
The company later specialized in producing products similar to the American TRS-80 series of microcomputers, under the general name of "CP" (for "Computador Pessoal" in Portuguese, "Personal Computer" in English).
One of its biggest successes in the professional field was the CP 500, compatible with the TRS-80 Model III.
In 1990, the company was sued by Microsoft for creating SO16 ("Sistema Operativo 16"), an operating system based on MS-DOS.
Line of products
A not extensive list of Prológica's products:
Home computers
NE-Z80 (Sinclair ZX80 clone) NE-Z8000 (1982, Sinclair ZX81 clone)
CP 200 (1982, Sinclair ZX81 compatible) CP 200 S (1982, Sinclair ZX81 compatible, alternate case) CP 300 (1983, TRS-80 Model III compatible) CP 400 COLOR (1984, Color Computer 2 compatible) CP 400 COLOR II (1985, better keyboard)
Personal computers Sistema 600 Sistema 700 (1981, DOS-700 - CP/M-80 compatible) CP 500 (1982, TRS-80 Model III compatible) CP 500/M80 (1985) CP 500/M80C (1986) Solution 16 (1986, SO16 - MS-DOS 2.11 compatible) CP 500 Turbo (1987, faster CPU) SP 16 AT SP 286 AT SP 386 AT SP 486
Peripherals CP 450 (floppy disk drive interface) Printer P 500 Printer P 600 Printer P 700 Printer P 720 Printer Antares 400
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