Company:LogAbax

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Short description: French computer manufacturer
LogAbax
IndustryIT company
Founded1942
Defunct1988 (1988)
ProductsComputers
Logabax 2600
LogAbax Persona 1600

LogAbax was a French computer brand. Founded in 1942, the company was one of France's pioneers in computer manufacturing. The name is composed of two abbreviations: Log from logarithm and Abax from abacus.[1]

History

The company was created in 1942 as “La Société Française des Brevets LogAbax”. In 1947 it employs twenty people and has a factory located at Malakoff. The company obtains a contract from CNRS for the construction of a "Couffignal machine", intended to be the fist French "electronic calculation machine".[2] Between 1948 and 1950 LogAbax studies an electronic meter, related to the electronic calculator development.[3]

In 1968 LogAbax and Bariquand et Marre merge, forming LogAbax SA.

The LX 500, a personal computer based on the Z80 microprocessor and running the CP/M operating system, is presented in 1978.[4][5]

Due to poor results in the late 1970s,[6] LogAbax files for bankruptcy in 1981, with Olivetti becoming the majority shareholder, creating a new entity named Société Nouvelle LogAbax.

The Persona 1600, a PC compatible machine with an Intel 8086 CPU (similar to Olivetti M24) is presented in 1985.[7][8] Other rebranded Olivetti PCs follow (Persona 1800[9] and 1300[10]).

In 1988 Olivetti France and Société Nouvelle LogAbax merge, becoming Olivetti-LogAbax.

Machines

  • LX 3200 - office computer, calculator, typewriter, printer, 1969[11]
  • LX 2200, 2600 - office computer, calculator, typewriter, printer, 1974/75[12]
  • LX 4200, 4300, 4400, 4500, 4600 - office computer, 1970s/75[13]
  • LX 5000, 5076, 5200 - multi-user 16-bit computer, 64 Kb RAM, 1976/77[14][15]
  • LX 2000, 2010, 2500 - 1976
  • LX 500, 518, 528 - Z80A, 128Kb RAM, CP/M, 1978[4][5][16]
  • LX 3000, 3128, 3500 - multi-user office computer, 1980[17]
  • Hyper 32 - fault tolerant redundant computer, 1983[18][19][20]
  • Persona 800 - Z80 @ 4 MHz, 64KB RAM, CP/M, 1985[21]
  • Persona 1600 (Olivetti M24) - Nanoréseau[22] network machine, 8086 @ 8 MHz, 1985[7][8][23]
  • Persona 1800 (Olivetti M28) - 80286 @ 8 MHz, 1986[9][24][25]
  • Persona 1300 (Olivetti M19) - 8088 @ 4.77 MHz, 256KB RAM, 1986[10][26]
  • 3B modèle 400 (Olivetti CPS/32 Stratos) - 68030, VOS, 1986[27]

See also

  • Computing for All, a French government plan to introduce computers to the country's pupils

References

  1. ↑ "Logabax histoire". http://www.silicium.org/site/index.php/28-catalogue/france/202-logabax-histoire. 
  2. ↑ "COMPAGNIE DES MACHINES BULL". http://www.feb-patrimoine.com/projet/couffignal/machine_couffignal.htm. 
  3. ↑ Pierre Mounier-Kuhn, L'informatique en France, de la seconde guerre mondiale au Plan Calcul. L'émergence d'une science, Paris, PUPS, 2010, « Chapitre 1 ».
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Logabax LX500". http://silicium.org/site/index.php/28-catalogue/france/166-logabax-lx500. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Logabax LX-500". https://www.system-cfg.com/detail.php?ident=692. 
  6. ↑ "Les difficultés de Logabax ou le paradoxe du succès" (in fr). Le Monde.fr. 1980-02-28. https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1980/02/28/les-difficultes-de-logabax-ou-le-paradoxe-du-succes_2812308_1819218.html. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Logabax Persona 1600". http://silicium.org/site/index.php/28-catalogue/france/200-logabax-persona-1600. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Logabax Persona 1600". https://www.system-cfg.com/detail.php?ident=693. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Logabax Persona 1800". https://www.system-cfg.com/detail.php?ident=1052. 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Logabax Persona 1300". https://www.system-cfg.com/detail.php?ident=1053. 
  11. ↑ "LX3200". http://logabax.free.fr/documents/lx3200/LX3200.htm. 
  12. ↑ "LX2200". http://logabax.free.fr/documents/lx2200/LX2200.htm. 
  13. ↑ "LX4000". http://logabax.free.fr/documents/lx4000/LX4000.htm. 
  14. ↑ "Logabax LX5000". http://www.silicium.org/site/index.php/28-catalogue/france/167-logabax-lx5000. 
  15. ↑ "LX5000". http://logabax.free.fr/documents/lx5000/LX5000.htm. 
  16. ↑ "LX500". http://logabax.free.fr/documents/lx500/LX500.htm. 
  17. ↑ "LX3000". http://logabax.free.fr/documents/lx3000/LX3000.htm. 
  18. ↑ CHAUVIN, Jacques (1986). "La session d'automne du SICOB 1986". La Revue administrative 39 (233): 497–501. ISSN 0035-0672. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40780051. 
  19. ↑ (in en) Broadband '89. Information Gatekeepers Inc. 2002. https://books.google.com/books?id=ghplX-Fm2C0C&dq=LogAbax+hyper+32&pg=PA285. 
  20. ↑ "Hyper32". http://logabax.free.fr/documents/hyper32/Hyper32.htm. 
  21. ↑ "P800". http://logabax.free.fr/documents/P800/P800.htm. 
  22. ↑ "Le Nanoréseau" (in en-US). https://sites.google.com/site/ksinfos/accueil/articles/le-nanor%C3%A9seau. 
  23. ↑ "Logabax - Album photos". http://logabax.free.fr/documents/P1600/P1600.htm. 
  24. ↑ "Logabax - Album photos". http://logabax.free.fr/documents/P1800/P1800.htm. 
  25. ↑ "Persona 1800" (in en-US). https://sites.google.com/site/retroordinateurs/sommaire/logabax/persona-1800. 
  26. ↑ "Logabax Persona 1300". http://www.silicium.org/site/index.php/28-catalogue/france/201-logabax-persona-1300. 
  27. ↑ "Olivetti CPS/32 - Paolo LANDI". https://www.paolo-landi.it/computer/olivetti_cps32.htm. 



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