T.R.A.N. Jasmin
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Jasmin is a disk system made by Timex of Portugal for the company Société T.R.A.N. (Technologie, Recherche & Applications Nouvelles) to be used on the ORIC 1/ORIC Atmos computers made by Tangerine Computer Systems.
The system uses the same casing as the original Timex FDD but with only 2 boxes: One is the controller with a PSU and the other is a 3″ Hitachi drive.
The system connects to the ORIC by its expansion port and the Jasmin PSU powers up both the disk system and the computer, replacing the ORIC original PSU.
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The controller has 2 buttons: Reset and Boot. RESET resets the computer and BOOT boots up T-DOS (Can be Timex or Tran), the disk operating system for Jasmin.
Later it was updated stating an improvement of 17 times the speed of disk operations and was called F-TDOS (Fast-TDOS) later renamed again to FT-DOS.
1000 units were produced by Timex, all to be sold in France.
Even visually being very similar to the Timex FDD, it’s not the same as the Jasmin is just a disk controller.
Other versions of the Jasmin disk system were released but the intervention of Timex of Portugal on those versions is unknown. T.R.A.N. Jasmin 2 was made by Datel.