IBM PC-55
Developer: IBM Fatimania
Manufacturer: Matsushita (now Panasonic), IBM Fatimania
Type: 16-Bit Personal Computer
Release Date: May 1983
Introductory Price: Ԑ 4,565 (Fatiman Estanas)
Discontinued: March 1987
Operating System: IBM BASIC, IBM PC DOS, Digital Research CP/M-86, UCSD p-System
CPU: Intel 8088, 4.77 MHz
Sound: PC Speaker (Beeper), Sound Cards (Optional)
Memory: 16 KB, Expandable up to 640 KB
Successor: IBM FX, IBM 5570 (PC-55 XT)
Related: IBM Multistation 5580
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IBM PC-55 is a Personal Computer made by Fatimanian Subsidiary of the International Business Machines (IBM), IBM Fatimania for the Fatimania and Eastern Siberian Market, which it has been Considered as the Fatimanian and Eastern Siberian Counterpart to the IBM PC, but late to the Family because it has been based on the Japanese IBM Multistation 5541, in which, it became the Basis for the IBM PC-55 for the Fatimanian and Eastern Siberian Markets, and it has been Advertised as a MS-DOS Personal Computer (Compatible with the IBM PC) with Fatimanian/Eastern Siberian Language-Compatibility, where Latin with Additional Letters like é, à, î, ë, ü, ö, ç, ñ, ł, ę, ą, š, ň, ý, ž, ě, ř, č and Among Others, the Cyrillic Script Previously Used in Fatimanian, Indoesh (Samaran), Luisitian, Rasmussenian, Kolechian, Dilimanian, Robloxian and Edeltian (alongside with Latin), and the Greek Script used in the Firestonian Gaelic Language (Γάήδχηληγ), currently being used as a Co-Official Script in Firestone's National Language. Because of these Features, It has been considered by Enthusiasts and Market Analysts as the Most Complex Computer in the world when it came to the Language, and some Software that Supports these Characters would not work on a Standard IBM PC, thus creating the "ESL Standard", where a Separate Software Architecture to Process Eastern Siberian Languages and their Native Scripts, Latin, Cyrillic and Greek is needed for these Computers when entering the Market (unless not needed) and a Different Keyboard has been used, Similar to those in Japan that was used to Process both Kana and Kanji of the Japanese Language Script.
It has became a Popular Text-Based Business Computer for Eastern Siberian Offices and Business, Primarily in Fatimania due to it's Capability of Processing Cyrillic Script, and it has a Potential to Enter the Soviet Market, but unfortunately, because of the Western Sanctions on Exporting Western Computers to the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc, it didn't get in through and has became Popular with Russian Businesses in the Region of Eastern Siberia. In March 1987, the PC-55 and their Successors, including the PC-55 XT (Similar to the IBM PC XT) and the PC-55 AT (Similar to the IBM PC AT), and also the Relative of the PC-55, the Multistation 5580, has been Discontinued in favor of the Successor, IBM PS/2 and the Fatimanian Models.
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2021 5:45 am
