Laser 110

The Laser110 was the first computer that Vtech produced back in 1983, and was part of a series range of Laser 100/200/300. The Laser 100/110 was the first attempt to enter the computer market and compete with the other companies. The Price tag was relatively cheap, and for what it had to offer, it was good value for money. As an introduction computer was very good and made a hit back then in the 80’s. The only drawbacks with these machines are the rubber keyboard that made it uncomfortable to type, and monochrome display. The interfaces and memory expansion are all interchangeable between the other series as the pin-outs where identical, you can check this under the download manual section. The only difference between each series model was memory, keyboard, case cosmetics and graphical display resolution, but software was not interchangeable between different series models due to memory and display resolution. The ROM was a clone of the TRS-80 Model 1 with slight modifications and basic interpreter very similar to Microsoft Basic.

The Club currently owns a Laser 110 computer boxed, complete with manuals in German language, expansion memory for 16Kbytes also boxed with manual, power supply and cables. The club managed to get this machine from a computer shop. The shop keeper told us that it never was switched on, but fortunately when we plugged it in it worked perfectly.