This article is about the East German company. For the Australian company, see Robotron Group. For the arcade game, see Robotron: 2084. For other meanings of the word, see Robotron (disambiguation).

A KC 87 home computer made by VEB Kombinat Robotron.

Robotron A 5120 office computer, 1982

VEB Kombinat Robotron was the biggest East German electronics manufacturer. It was based in Dresden and employed 30,000 people. It produced television sets, personal computers and the ESER mainframes.

Robotron managed several different entities:

• VEB Robotron-Elektronik in Hoyerswerda
• VEB Robotron-Elektronik in Radeberg
• VEB Robotron Vertrieb Berlin, mit Betriebsteil in Stralsund
• VEB Robotron-Elektronik in Zella-Mehlis
• VEB Robotron Büromaschinen in Sömmerda
• VEB Robotron Elektronik in Riesa

Rebranding activities

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

In Eastern Germany the Epson printers were sold under the Robotron brand (but the technical description on the back side was with the "Epson" logo).

Just before German Reunification, on 23 August 1990 the Robotron database software company was split off.

See also

• Robotron KC 85

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

Robotron

• computer-archiv.de - On-line generalised list of computers including Robotron. German language site.
• robotrontechnik.de - On-line museum of Robotron companies and products. German language site with some English translations.
• soemtron.org - Technical data for the Soemtron 22x series (220, 222, 224) desktop calculators manufactured by VEB Robotron Büromaschinen.

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