A Hungarian Spectrum clone made by Híradástechnikai Szövetkezet,
released in 1986. It was the third computer from the company. The two
first computers HT 1080Z and HT 2080Z were clones or TRS-80 and were
unsuccessfull because of the poor graphics features and high price. They
were both school computers. In 1986 in Hungary the school computers have
to fulfill new requirements: they have to produce high resolution graphics
and support the special Hungarian characters. That's why the HT 3080C came
out and it was both compatible with the previous HT machines as well as
the ZX Spectrum. You could switch between TRS-80 and ZX Spectrum mode.
It has a graphics resolution is 256x192 (standard Speccy) and an AY-chip
for sound (to be compatible with the previous HT machines, not with the
128K Speccy). ROM: 32K (Speccy+HT ROMs), RAM: 64K (possibly also a
requirement for Hungarian school computers, because all school computers
in Hungary has 64K). It has a Commodore serial port so you could also
connect perihipals made for the C64 to it, for instance the C=1541 drive.
There is a site in hungarian about the computers at http://www.acsady-papa.sulinet.hu/muzeum/muzeum/magyar/ht1080.htm
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