Private company
Dataindustrier AB
Swedish computer firm
Dataindustrier AB (literal translation: computer industries shareholding company) or DIAB was a Swedish computer engineering and manufacturing firm, founded in 1970 by Lars Karlsson and active in the 1970s through 1990s. The company's first product was a board-based computer centered on a specific bus named Data Board 4680. This unit was used for automatic control in several Swedish industries as would be almost all of DIAB's computers.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
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Dataindustrier AB (literal translation: computer industries shareholding company) or DIAB was a Swedish computer engineering and manufacturing firm, founded in 1970 by Lars Karlsson and active in the 1970s through 1990s. The company's first product was a board-based computer centered on a specific bus named Data Board 4680. This unit was used for automatic control in several Swedish industries as would be almost all of DIAB's computers. DIAB is mostly known for engineering the ABC 80, the first Swedish home computer, manufactured by Luxor AB.2
Products and brands
Card-based microcomputers
1974: Data Board 4680 - the number is a short form of the three microprocessors supported by the bus of this system: Intel 4004, Motorola 6800 and Zilog Z80. Eventually only Z80 was ever used in this product.
Home and office computers
1977: 7S "Seven S" a combined monochrome terminal and computer built on the Data Board 4680 bus and a Z80 processor.
1978: ABC 80 a Z80-based monochrome home computer.
1983: ABC 800 an enhanced office and home computer, 32 KB RAM, also based on Z80, with color graphics.
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1983: ABC 802 a variant of ABC 800 with 64 KB RAM whereof 32 KB were used as a RAM disk.
1983: ABC 806 a variant of ABC 800 with 160 KB RAM whereof 128 were used as a RAM disk.
From Wikipedia’s article on Dataindustrier AB, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3
Timeline
- 1971Founded Founded1
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- 1WikidataDataindustrier AB on Wikidata
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- 4Wikimedia CommonsDataindustrier AB photo by Ellinor Algin, CC BY 4.0