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title: EPCOM / SHARP Hotbit HB-8000
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categories:
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- Computers
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types:
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- Home Computer
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origins:
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- Brazil
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years:
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- '1985'
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cpus:
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- Zilog Z80A
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params:
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name: Hotbit HB-8000
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company: /companies/epcom-sharp
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company_name: EPCOM / SHARP
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specs:
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- label: NAME
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value: Hotbit HB-8000
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- label: MANUFACTURER
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value: Epcom / Sharp
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- label: TYPE
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value: Home Computer
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- label: ORIGIN
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value: Brazil
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- label: YEAR
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value: December 1985
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- label: END OF PRODUCTION
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value: '1988'
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- label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE
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value: Hot-Basic v1.2
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- label: KEYBOARD
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value: Full-stroke keyboard, 5 function keys and 4 arrow keys. 73 keys. Portuguese special characters
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- label: CPU
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value: Zilog Z80A
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- label: SPEED
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value: 3.58 MHz
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- label: CO-PROCESSOR
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value: TMS-9128NL video processor
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- label: RAM
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value: 64 KB (28 KB free with MSX Basic)
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- label: VRAM
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value: 16 KB
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- label: ROM
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value: 32 KB BASIC/BIOS ( MSX BASIC V1.0)
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- label: TEXT MODES
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value: |-
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Mode 0 : 40 x 24\
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Mode 1 : 32 x 24
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- label: GRAPHIC MODES
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value: |-
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Mode 2 : 256 x 192 with 16 colors (Hires mode)\
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Mode 3 : 64 x 48 with 16 colors (Multi colour mode)\
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32 sprites
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- label: COLORS
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value: '16'
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- label: SOUND
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value: |-
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General Instruments AY-3-8910 Programmable Sound Generator\
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3 channels, 8 octaves
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- label: SIZE / WEIGHT
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value: 405 x 280 x 58 mm / 3,2 Kg
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- label: I/O PORTS
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value: Audio output, 2 controller ports, 1 cartridge slot, Tape interface (1200/2400 bauds), Composite video output (PAL-M), RF TV output, Printer / Centronics interface
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- label: OS
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value: MSX DOS
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- label: POWER SUPPLY
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value: Built-in PSU, 120/220V AC60Hz
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- label: PRICE
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value: Unknown
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tabs:
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- photos
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- adverts
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- hardware
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- software
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- emulators
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- links
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photos:
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- title: BEIGE VERSION
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: null
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- title: BLACK VERSION
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: null
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- title: BOTH SIDES
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subtitle: ''
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text: |-
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The power switch is on the right side.\
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The reset switch and second cartridge or expansion slot are on the left side.\
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Two joystick connectors are on the front side.
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image: null
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- title: REAR CONNECTORS
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subtitle: ''
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text: 'Three switches are accessible from the underneath of the case: TV channel 2 or 3, B/W or colour video output, 110/220V power supply.'
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image: null
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- title: INSIDE
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subtitle: ''
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text: |-
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Very classical MSX-1 board, designed by Sharp in Japan, but made in Brazil by Epcom.
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**(1)** Reset switch\
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**(2)** Both cartridge slots\
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**(3)** General Instruments AY-8910 sound generator\
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**(4)** Sharp LH0080A processor, Z80A compatible\
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**(5)** 32 KB EPROM chip, holds the MSX-Basic interpreter\
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**(6)** Texas Instruments TMS-9128NL video chip, an heat sink is roughly glued on it\
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**(7)** Keyboard connector\
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**(8)** 16 KB video RAM chips (2x4416)\
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**(9)** NEC 8255 I/O chip\
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**(10)** Tape recorder remote relay\
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**(11)** TV/UHF and composite video module\
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**(12)** 110/220V Power supply unit\
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**(13)** 64 KB RAM chips (8x4864)
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image: null
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- title: LOGO
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: null
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- title: BOX
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: null
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adverts:
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- title: 'ADVERT #1'
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subtitle: ''
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text: Thanks to [COB-Clube Old Bits](http://www.cobit.kit.net) for this picture.
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image: null
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- title: 'ADVERT #2'
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subtitle: ''
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text: Thanks to [COB-Clube Old Bits](http://www.cobit.kit.net) for this picture.
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image: null
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- title: 'ADVERT #3'
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subtitle: ''
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text: Thanks to [COB-Clube Old Bits](http://www.cobit.kit.net) for this picture.
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image: null
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hardware:
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- title: HB-6000
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subtitle: 5,25'' Floppy Disk Drive
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text: We can see here two HB-6000 (5,25'' 360 KB floppy disk drives) and one HB-3600 (Dual disk drive controller).
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image: null
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- title: NATIONAL CF-2131
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subtitle: 16 KB RAM expansion
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/hardware/national_cf2131_16k-cart.jpg
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- title: CASIO OR-216 - 16 KB RAM EXPANSION
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subtitle: Box
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/hardware/casio_or216_16kbramexpansion_box.jpg
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- title: PHILIPS RAM EXPANSION
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subtitle: ''
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text: |-
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RAM expansion and LOGO language cartridges.
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Thanks to Daniele from Italy
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image: /media/museum/hardware/philips_vg8020_cartridges_s1.jpg
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- title: MEGA RAM DISK 256
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subtitle: from DDX (Brazil)
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text: This is the famous Megaram cartridge made in Brzail, used to play all Konami cracked Megarom games.6401999243
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image: /media/museum/hardware/msx_megaram256-ddx_1.jpg
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- title: PANASONIC FS-IFA1 & FW-RSU1W
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subtitle: Scanner/Printer interface
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text: The FS-IFA1 is the printer/scanner interface (left on the picture) and the FW-RSU1W is the handheld scanner (right on the picture). These expansions are for MSX2 systems.
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image: /media/museum/hardware/msx_fs-ifa1_fw-rsu1w.jpg
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- title: SONY HBI-232
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subtitle: RS232c cartridge
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text: Used to connect serial printers.
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image: /media/museum/hardware/sony_msx_rs232c-cartridge.jpg
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- title: 'YAMAHA MOUSE #1'
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subtitle: ''
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text: |-
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This mouse was compatible with all MSX systems. It connects to the first Joystick port.
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Thanks to **www.zonadepruebas.com**
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image: /media/museum/hardware/yamaha_mouse_s2.jpg
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- title: 'YAMAHA MOUSE #2'
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subtitle: ''
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text: |-
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Brand new!
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Thanks to **www.zonadepruebas.com**
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image: /media/museum/hardware/yamaha_mouse_s1.jpg
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- title: PHILIPS VW0020
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subtitle: 80-col dot-matrix printer
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text: |-
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This printer was a rebadged version of the Seikosha GP-500.\
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It was a 80-column, 50 CPS model with a 7x5 dot matrix head.\
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Commodore and Atari used same hardware basis for their MPS-801 and 1029 printers.
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image: /media/museum/hardware/philips_vg8020_printervw0020_s1.jpg
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- title: SANYO PHC-DR II
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subtitle: Side
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/hardware/sanyo_phc-drii_side_1.jpg
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- title: SANYO PHC-DR II
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subtitle: Front
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/hardware/sanyo_phc-drii_front_1.jpg
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- title: SANYO DR-202
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subtitle: ''
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text: The ADSS system allowed to quickly search a specific program in a cassette tape and load it. Seach time for a C60 cassette was less than 1 minute.
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image: /media/museum/hardware/sanyo_phc28_dr202tapedrive_s1.jpg
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- title: NATIONAL RQ-8030
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subtitle: tape-recorder
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/hardware/national_tape_rq8030.jpg
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- title: BIT-CORDER
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subtitle: ''
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text: Cassete recorder dedicated to Hit-Bit MSX systems, though it could be used with any home computers.
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image: /media/museum/hardware/sony_hb201_bitcorder_1.jpg
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screenshots:
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- title: TITLE SCREEN
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: null
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- title: KEYBOARD EXPLANATION
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: null
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emulators:
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- title: fMSX for MS DOS Homepage
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url: http://www.komkon.org/~dekogel/fmsx.html
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platform: MS DOS
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text: ''
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- title: BlueMSX
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url: http://www.bluemsx.com/
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platform: Windows
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text: Excellent free MSX emulator
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- title: BrMSX
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url: http://www.lsi.usp.br/~ricardo/brmsx.htm
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platform: Windows
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text: A Bresilian MSX Emulator written in 100% assembler
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- title: CompuJunk's MSX Emulator
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url: http://ftp.castel.nl/msx/
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platform: Windows
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text: A MSX1 and MSX2 Emulator
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- title: RuMSX
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url: http://members.eunet.at/lexlechz/msx.html
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platform: Windows
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text: A MSX Emulator for Win95 and Win NT + Direct X
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- title: fMSX for MAC OS Homepage
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url: http://www.emulation.net/msx/index.html
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platform: Apple
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text: ''
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- title: fMSX official Homepage
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url: http://www.komkon.org/fms/fMSX
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platform: Multiplatform
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text: 'fMSX is a portable MSX emulator ported on : Amiga OS, Mac OS, MS DOS, OS/2, Sony Playstation, Risc OS, Towns OS, Unix / X, Win95 / NT, X68K.'
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- title: openMSX - The MSX emulator that aims for perfection.
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url: http://openmsx.sourceforge.net/
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platform: Multiplatform
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text: This new MSX emulator can reproduce, among many other MSX, MSX2and MSX2+ machines, both Panasonic Turbo-R models. Be sure to get the catapult frontend and the system roms from FUNET.
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links:
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- title: Baboo!
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url: http://www.baboo.net/baboo.shtml
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text: MSX dedicated Yahoo clone. Essential !
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- title: FILE-HUNTER.COM
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url: http://www.file-hunter.com/
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text: Excellent! All MSX emulators, sources and utilities!
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- title: FTP da MSXBr-L/MSX.Org.Br
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url: http://www.caetano.eng.br/msxsoft/
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text: Excellent brasilian software archive
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- title: MOAI TECH
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url: http://www.moai-tech.com/
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text: Spanish/English website with interesting content
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- title: MSX Hardware List
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url: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/hardware.html
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text: An impressive list of MSX hardware. The Bible !!!
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- title: MSX Ressource Center
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url: http://www.msx.org/
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text: Essential site !
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- title: Possi's Konami MSX Page
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url: http://dynamo.geol.msu.ru/MSX/
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text: Nice page dedicated to all Konami MSX games (roms, scans, mids, etc.)
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- title: The MSX Games Box
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url: http://www.msxgamesbox.com
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text: All about MSX gaming (games, covers.etc.). More Fun, Less Mhz!
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- title: The MSX Museum BOX
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url: http://www.msxmuseumbox.com
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text: More than 190 different MSX models in pictures.
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- title: The ultimate MSX Faq
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url: http://www.faq.msxnet.org
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text: Here, you can find near all hardware pieces related to MSX.
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- title: Web Wiz CAPTCHA
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url: http://www.webwizcaptcha.com
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text: The MSX home computer system
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comments:
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- author: Gabriel Graça (Brazil)
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date: Wednesday 20th May 2015
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text: There''s a TV commercial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v$7PeCWm_trY8) from december 1985 which shows the Hotbit being sold for Cr$3,900,00.00 (yes, nearly 4 million cruzeiros). That would have meant about US$400 as the exchange rate was Cr$10,000.00 that month (things were very dinamic then!). In 2015 dollars, that''s US$877.77.
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- author: Roger Jowett (Ulster Londonderry)
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date: Saturday 6th April 2013
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text: |-
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v$zsjTpFR0oYQ
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we can run zx spectrum 48k and one 128k programs at 6mhz please help
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- author: Matheus de Paula Medeiros (Brazil)
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date: Tuesday 2nd August 2011
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text: I bought one of these for $ 5 a while ago. They are amazing.
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- author: Paulo Vaz (Brazil)
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date: Sunday 2nd January 2005
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text: |-
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I´m loking for the original or scanned manuals for this machine. Also the demo cartdrige.
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Thanks in advance.
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- /museum/canon-v-20
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- /museum/canon-v-8
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- /museum/casio-mx-10-mx-101
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- /museum/casio-pv-16
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- /museum/casio-pv-7
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- /museum/fujitsu-fm-x
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- /museum/general-paxon-pct-50
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- /museum/gradiente-expert-plus
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- /museum/gradiente-expert-xp-800
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- /museum/hitachi-ah-200
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- /museum/hitachi-h1-h1e
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- /museum/hitachi-h2
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- /museum/mitsubishi-ml-f110-ml-f120
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- /museum/mitsubishi-ml-f48-ml-f80
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- /museum/mitsubishi-ml-fx1-fx2
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- /museum/mitsubishi-ml-g10
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- /museum/msx-1
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- /museum/national-cf-2000
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- /museum/national-cf-2700
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- /museum/national-cf-3000
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- /museum/national-fs-4000
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- /museum/national-fs-4500
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- /museum/olympia-phc-2
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- /museum/panasonic-cf-2700
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- /museum/philips-nms-801
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- /museum/philips-vg-8000-8010
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- /museum/philips-vg-8020
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- /museum/philips-vg-8235
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- /museum/pioneer-palcom-px-7
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- /museum/sanyo-mpc-100
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- /museum/sanyo-phc-28
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- /museum/sanyo-phc-30
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- /museum/sanyo-phc-33
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- /museum/sanyo-wavy-10-mpc-10
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- /museum/sanyo-wavy-23
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- /museum/sanyo-wavy-3
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- /museum/schneider-philips-mc-810
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- /museum/sony-hit-bit-10
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- /museum/sony-hit-bit-101
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- /museum/sony-hit-bit-20
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- /museum/sony-hit-bit-201
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- /museum/sony-hit-bit-501
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- /museum/sony-hit-bit-55
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- /museum/sony-hit-bit-75
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- /museum/spectravideo-svi-728
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- /museum/toshiba-hx-10-pasopia-iq
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- /museum/toshiba-hx-20-hx-21-pasopia-iq
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- /museum/toshiba-hx-52
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- /museum/victor-hc-6
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- /museum/yamaha-cx5
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- /museum/yamaha-cx5m-music-computer
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- /museum/yamaha-sx-100
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- /museum/yamaha-yis-303
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- /museum/yamaha-yis-503-diabolik
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- /museum/yashica-yc-64
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- /museum/yeno-dpc-64
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- /museum/yeno-mx-64
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oc_id: 833
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source:
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url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230604025938/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=833
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date: '2023-06-04'
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The HOTBIT HB-8000 was, along with the [Gradiente Expert](/museum/gradiente-expert-xp-800/), the only MSX system officialy available in Brasil (though imported MSX systems like the Canon V-20, Yamaha CX5, Yashica YC-64, etc. could be bought). It was developped by Sharp and marketed by Epcom. It is a classic MSX 1 computer, with 64 KB RAM and two cartridge slots (one on top, and the "expansion" port on the side of the system).
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MSX systems did very well in Brasil and litteraly killed the previous micro-computer market populated with TRS-80, Apple II and Spectrum clones from local companies. Gradiente (sound / HIFI products) and Epcom/Sharp (video products) were big companies, and put a lot of money in the marketing of their MSX computers.
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Though the Hotbit was more respectful of MSX standards than the Gradiente Expert, it did not win the marketing battle, and its production was stopped in 1988.
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There are several versions of the Hotbit HB-8000: version 1.0 and 1.1 use a white case, while version 1.2, released to be compatible with the Gradiente Expert ASCII table (problem related to portuguese special characters), use a black case.\
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**Djogo Patrao** adds:\
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Back on these days, the most annoying difference between Hotbits and Experts was in which slot were the RAM. A great deal of software didn't autodetected this, and assumed the Expert default, which caused bad (and wrong) opinions about Hotbit.
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**Rafael Rigues** reports:\
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If you look on the back of a black Hotbit, you will notice that the area surrounding the ports is covered by a thin plastic mask, as it was originally recessed. Removing this mask, you will find a circular opening for an extra port marked RGB (the text is molded in the plastic). This leads to the speculation that this model was originally designed as an MSX 2 machine.
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However, I had the opportunity to help in an interview with the marketing manager of Sharp on that era, and he knew nothing about this. According to him, the 1.2 models are black simply to make them more appealing and fit better with A/V equipment of the time.
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