Kontron Advert - October 1981
From Practical Computing
Kontron: Look to tomorrow with the PSIΨ80 Microcomputer Series
It's another advert aimed at OEMs rather than the end user, this time from Kontron Mikrocomputer GmbH of Echning, near Munich in what was West Germany.
Demonstrating its target market of engineering, science, medical and industrial installations, the PSI 80 was available both in the desktop form show in the advert and as a 19" rack-mounted computer, with separate display.
The system ran an extended version of CP/M called KOS, and came with Pascal, COBOL, BASIC and Fortran. Kontron also offered its own customised version of Wordstar, as well as PSI/Autotext, PSI/Plot and a modem communcations package, PSI/MOD.
Both variants of the PSI offered a built-in "slot frame" which could take plug-in cards in the Eurocard format[1], a useful feature in a laboratory or industrial setting.
Date created: 19 July 2025
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