VEB Robotron

VEB Robotron-Buchungsmaschinenwerk Karl-Marx-Stadt — personal computers, floppy disk drives

VEB Robotron-Elektronik Hoyerswerda — monitors, power supply units

VEB Robotron-Elektronik Radeberg — mainframes, radio receivers, portable television receivers, directional radio systems

VEB Robotron Vertrieb Dresden, Berlin and Erfurt — sales departments

VEB Robotron-Elektronik Zella-Mehlis — computer terminals, hard disk drives

VEB Robotron-Büromaschinenwerk Sömmerda — personal computers, printers, electronic calculators (Soemtron 220, 222, 224), invoicing machines (EFA 380), punched card indexers and sorters (Soemtron 432).

VEB Robotron Elektronik Riesa — printed circuit boards

VEB Robotron-Anlagenbau Leipzig — general contractor, design and assembly for computer and process calculation systems in the GDR and export, training center

On 30 June 1990, Kombinat Robotron was liquidated and its divisions were converted into corporations. In the 1990s, these companies were sold, e.g. to Siemens Nixdorf and IBM, or liquidated. Less than five percent of the employees were able to switch to successor companies. However, the abundance of highly qualified workers promoted the subsequent settlement of various companies in the region.

Robotron Datenbank-Software GmbH is a company which emerged from one of the former divisions of Kombinat Robotron. It was newly founded on 23 August 1990, just before German reunification.

Robotron hardware and software

Robotron product series include:

Midrange computer EDVA Robotron 300 (based on IBM 1401),

R 4000 and R 4200 computers (based on Honeywell Series 16),

ES EVM systems EC 1040, EC 1055, EC 1056, EC 1057 (based on IBM System/360, IBM System/370),

Minicomputer and Superminicomputer K 1600 (DEC PDP-11), K 1840 (VAX 11/780), K 1820 (MicroVAX II),

Office and personal computers A 5120, PC 1715, A 7100, A 7150, BIC A 5105, EC 1834 (IBM XT), EC 1835 (IBM AT),

OEM modular microcomputer systems K 1510, K 1520, K 1700

Operating systems such as Single User Control Program (based on CP/M), JAMB, Disk Control Program [de] (based on MS-DOS), KOBRA and SIOS (an in-house development).

Rebranding of products

Robotron printers were sold in Western Germany as Soemtron or Präsident, and the West German branch of Commodore used some Robotron parts for their printers.

In East Germany, Epson printers were sold under the Robotron brand that still had the Epson logo on the back.