Telmac 1800


The Telmac 1800 was an early microcomputer delivered in kit form. It was introduced in 1977 by Telercas, the Finnish importer of RCA microchips. Most of the 2,000 kits manufactured were bought by electronics enthusiasts in Finland, Sweden and Norway.
An expansion board, OSCOM, later became available, and included an alphanumeric video display, and up to of memory. A Tiny BASIC could be run on this configuration.
The first-ever commercial video game to be developed in Finland, Chesmac, was developed by Raimo Suonio on a Telmac 1800 computer in 1979.

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