Mitra 15

Mitra 15
Front panel of a Mitra 15, from the collection of ACONIT Museum, Grenoble
DeveloperCompagnie Internationale d'Informatique (CII)
Product familyMinicomputer
Generation3rd
Release date1971
Discontinued1985
Units soldAbout 8000 (7929)
Operating systemSiris 8
CPU16 bits, real-time (32 interruptions level), upgradeable microcode, made of TTL cards plugged onto a backplane @ 800ns memory cycle (1.25 MHz)
Memory(Core memory, 32 kilowords of 16 bits words (64 KB))
StorageDRI hard drive (5 MB fixed, 5 MB removable) Later, 50 MB hard drive
InputTeletype, Ethernet, Minitel
PredecessorCII 10010, CII 10020
SuccessorMitra 125, Mitra 225

The Mitra 15 is a minicomputer made by the French company CII under Plan Calcul, along with the Iris 50 and Iris 80 mainframe computers. It was marketed from 1971 to 1985 and could function in conjunction with large systems. CII manufactured a thousand Mitra 15 machines until 1975 in its Toulouse factory, then in Crolles in the suburbs of Grenoble. A total of 7,929 units were built, most of them for the French market, with a small number sold in Australia, Indonesia, and in other European countries.