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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 (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/M (1985)
• CP 500/M (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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