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In January 1985, it was announced that the grand total number of Oric-1 and Oric Atmos units sold since 1983 was around 350 000. [https://www.quantum-bits.org/?p=5065 Source]
In June 1985, Oric was acquired by Eurêka and became French. The production of the Atmos models was then moved to France, which became the only country manufacturing Oric computers. The British, wanting Oric computers, had to import them! Subsequently, Eurêka revived the former name Oric International and continued the development of their next model, the Telestrat (formerly Stratos).
The Telestrat competed with the [[Exelvision EXL100|Exelvision Exeltel]] and the [[Thomson|Thomson TO9+]], other computers designed for France's [[Minitel]] network.
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Due to the need to include both control codes and completely-addressable graphics, in graphics mode each byte contains only six pixels ― a seventh bit is used optionally to invert the available colours. So the 40-byte display is at most 240 pixels. In practice it is usually less because of the need to establish foreground and background colours in the leftmost columns.
An [[AY]] is provided as the sound chip, exactly as on the [[CPC]], and at same frequency.
The Oric is also notable for shipping initially with a buggy ROM that made loading and saving from tape extremely unreliable. This was corrected in later manufacturing runs.
