Superbrain

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The Intertec Superbrain was first sold by Intertec in 1979. It was advertised as an "All in ONE smart portable lightweight console (45 lb [20 kg]): Just add a printer!" The all-in-one console featured a 12-inch CRT screen, 80-key keyboard with numeric keypad, and dual double density 5-inch disk drives. The 12-inch screen displayed 24 lines of 80 characters. The machine ran the operating system CP/M and was somewhat unusual in that it used dual Z80 CPUs which run at 4MHz, the second being used as a disk controller. The Superbrain was available with either 32K or 64K of RAM.

An advert in Practical Computing, October 1979 advertises the computer for £1995 as a "one-off price".

Our unit was very kindly donated by Mr G S Cope

Serial No: 208024

Manufacturer: Intertec Data Systems
Date: 1979

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Superbrain Manuals:

Item	Manufacturer	Date
Superbrain User's Manual	Intertec	1 Sep 1980
Hardware Information on the Superbrain	Jonathan W Platt	1981
Intertec SuperBrain Schematic and Component Layout Drawings	Intertec	Jan 1981
SuperBrain Miscellany	Intertec	Oct 1982
SuperBrain Documentation and Manuals	Intertec	1983

Magazines RELATED to Superbrain in our Library

Item	Manufacturer	Date
Practical Computing - September 1979	ECC	Sep 1979
Practical Computing - October 1979	ECC	Oct 1979
Practical Computing - November 1979	IPC Electrical Electronic Press	Nov 1979
Practical Computing - January 1980	IPC Electrical Electronic Press	Jan 1980
Practical Computing - April 1980, Volume 3, Issue 4	IPC Electrical Electronic Press	Apr 1980
Personal Computer World - August 1980		Aug 1980
Computer Age - September 1980	Computer Age	Sep 1980
Personal Computer World - October 1980		Oct 1980