<s>
The	O
Tatung	B-Operating_System
Einstein	I-Operating_System
was	O
an	O
eight-bit	O
home/personal	O
computer	O
produced	O
by	O
Taiwanese	O
corporation	O
Tatung	O
,	O
designed	O
in	O
Bradford	B-Application
,	O
England	O
at	O
Tatung	O
's	O
research	O
laboratories	O
and	O
assembled	O
in	O
Bridgnorth	O
and	O
Telford	O
,	O
England	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Tatung	B-Operating_System
Einstein	I-Operating_System
TC-01	O
was	O
released	O
in	O
the	O
United	O
Kingdom	O
in	O
the	O
summer	O
of	O
1984	O
,	O
and	O
5,000	O
were	O
exported	O
to	O
Taipei	B-Application
later	O
that	O
year	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
Tatung	O
monitor	O
(	O
monochrome	O
or	O
colour	O
)	O
and	O
dot	O
matrix	O
printer	O
were	O
also	O
available	O
as	O
options	O
,	O
plus	O
external	B-Device
disc	I-Device
drives	I-Device
and	O
an	O
80	O
column	O
display	O
card	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
also	O
capable	O
of	O
running	O
ZX	B-Operating_System
Spectrum	I-Operating_System
software	O
with	O
the	O
"	O
Speculator	O
"	O
addon	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
later	O
revised	O
version	O
,	O
called	O
the	O
Tatung	B-Operating_System
Einstein	I-Operating_System
256	O
and	O
released	O
in	O
1985	O
,	O
suffered	O
a	O
similar	O
fate	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
machine	O
was	O
physically	O
large	O
,	O
with	O
an	O
option	O
for	O
one	O
or	O
two	O
built-in	O
three-inch	O
floppy	B-Device
disk	I-Device
drives	I-Device
manufactured	O
by	O
Hitachi	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Another	O
unusual	O
feature	O
of	O
the	O
Einstein	O
was	O
that	O
on	O
start-up	O
the	O
computer	O
entered	O
a	O
simple	O
machine	B-General_Concept
code	I-General_Concept
monitor	I-General_Concept
,	O
called	O
MOS	O
(	O
Machine	O
Operating	B-General_Concept
System	I-General_Concept
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
variety	O
of	O
software	O
could	O
then	O
be	O
loaded	O
from	O
disk	O
,	O
including	O
a	O
CP/M	B-Application
-compatible	I-Application
operating	B-General_Concept
system	I-General_Concept
called	O
Xtal	O
DOS	O
(	O
pronounced	O
'	O
Crystal	O
DOS	O
 '	O
,	O
created	O
by	O
Crystal	O
Computers	O
in	O
Torquay	O
)	O
,	O
and	O
a	O
BASIC	B-Language
interpreter	O
(	O
Xtal	O
BASIC	B-Language
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Versions	O
of	O
popular	O
software	O
like	O
DBase	B-Application
or	O
WordStar	B-Application
were	O
available	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Thanks	O
to	O
the	O
reliability	O
of	O
the	O
machine	O
,	O
and	O
ample	O
memory	O
,	O
the	O
machine	O
proved	O
useful	O
by	O
many	O
software	O
houses	O
to	O
use	O
for	O
programming	O
,	O
and	O
then	O
porting	O
the	O
code	O
to	O
the	O
machines	O
they	O
were	O
made	O
for	O
,	O
namely	O
the	O
Spectrum	B-Operating_System
48k	I-Operating_System
,	O
Amstrad	B-Device
CPC	I-Device
,	O
and	O
Commodore	O
64	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Eventually	O
,	O
it	O
was	O
superseded	O
by	O
the	O
PC	B-Device
and	O
Atari	B-Device
ST	I-Device
as	O
the	O
development	O
systems	O
of	O
choice	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
follow	O
on	O
machine	O
,	O
the	O
Einstein	O
256	O
,	O
basically	O
was	O
the	O
same	O
as	O
the	O
original	O
,	O
with	O
improved	O
video	O
(	O
Yamaha	B-General_Concept
V9938	I-General_Concept
)	O
and	O
a	O
more	O
slimline	O
black	O
case	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Tatung	B-Operating_System
Einstein	I-Operating_System
TC-01	O
specifications	O
are	O
similar	O
the	O
MSX	B-Operating_System
standard	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Tatung	B-Operating_System
Einstein	I-Operating_System
256	O
was	O
similar	O
to	O
the	O
original	O
with	O
improved	O
video	O
(	O
Yamaha	B-General_Concept
V9938	I-General_Concept
)	O
and	O
more	O
RAM	B-Architecture
.	O
</s>
