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title: Fujitsu Micro 16s
categories:
- Computers
types:
- Professional Computer
origins:
- Japan
years:
- '1983'
cpus:
- Intel 8086
params:
name: Micro 16s
company: /companies/fujitsu
company_name: Fujitsu
specs:
- label: NAME
value: Micro 16s
- label: MANUFACTURER
value: Fujitsu
- label: TYPE
value: Professional Computer
- label: ORIGIN
value: Japan
- label: YEAR
value: '1983'
- label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE
value: None
- label: KEYBOARD
value: Full troke 98 keys with 10 function keys and numeric keypad
- label: CPU
value: Intel 8086, Zilog Z80-A (standard), Motorola 68000, Intel 80286, Zilog Z8000 boards
- label: SPEED
value: 8 MHz (8086), 4 MHz (Z80)
- label: CO-PROCESSOR
value: Motorola 6809, MOS 6845 (Graphic video interface)
- label: RAM
value: 128 KB up to 1152 KB
- label: VRAM
value: 4 KB ( Characters) + 48 KB (graphics)
- label: ROM
value: 8 KB (boot loader, diagnostics)
- label: TEXT MODES
value: 80 chars. x 25 lines
- label: GRAPHIC MODES
value: 640 x 200 pixels
- label: COLORS
value: '8'
- label: SOUND
value: Tone generator
- label: SIZE / WEIGHT
value: Unknown
- label: I/O PORTS
value: Parallel Centronics, Serial RS232, 4-channel A/D converter, RGB video, composite video, Light-pen
- label: BUILT IN MEDIA
value: 1 to 4 x 320 KB 5.25'' floppy disc drives, 5 to 20 MB hard disk
- label: OS
value: Concurrent CP/M-86 with GSX graphic extension, MP/M-86, MS-DOS, Unix
- label: POWER SUPPLY
value: Built-in power supply unit
- label: PERIPHERALS
value: External 8'' or 5.25'' floppy disc and hard disc units
- label: PRICE
value: $3995 with colour monitor, CP/M-86, Wordstar and Supercalc²
tabs:
- photos
- links
photos:
- title: MAIN BOARD
subtitle: ''
text: |-
8086 and Z80-A boards are plugged into the expansion slots.\
Remaining slots could be fitted with: - Extra memory boards (slot 3) - Hard disk controller (slot 4) - Multiport serial communications (slot 5) - Local area network (slot 6)
image: null
- title: CHARACTER MODE
subtitle: ''
text: |-
An example of the character mode.\
Shown is a Supercalc² table.
image: null
- title: BLOCK DIAGRAM
subtitle: ''
text: The 8086 processor is plugged into slot 1 and the Z80-A into slot 2.
image: null
links:
- title: Evaluation in Creative Computing magazine
url: http://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v10n3/101_Fujitsu_Micro_16s.php
text: ''
comments:
- author: John Boxall (Brisbane, Australia)
date: Monday 2nd September 2019
text: I have a new, old-stock Micro16s/FACOM8030 system with color screen, Z80 and 8086, twin 320k floppy drives and MSDOS2.11 system disks. If anyone can sell me copies of the other included software, CP/M disks etc - please email me. john at johnboxall dot com. I am open to selling the system within Australia.
- author: J. G Newell (United States)
date: Wednesday 9th March 2016
text: I remember the OP - David Moss, and the Fujitsu interface board for the Micros. I have always wondered whatever became of all that? Dave, did you find a Micro through here - and get it working? Love to know how much of the old computer gear you still have. Drop me a line - CompuVision Solutions in Anchorage!
- author: Chris (NJ)
date: Monday 7th September 2015
text: e-mail is dreyfusshudson at yahoo dot com
- author: Chris (NJ)
date: Monday 7th September 2015
text: I''m looking for a Fujitsu Micro 16s. Anyone got one, please e-mail me.
- author: Kathleen
date: Tuesday 16th June 2015
text: I have a Fujitsu Micro 16s if anyone wants to buy it. I worked for Fujitsu in San Jose in the 80s and bought it in 1985.
- author: Randall B.B. Parker (United States)
date: Wednesday 3rd June 2015
text: I have a micro 16s complete VNIB. anyone know what its worth...Has everything.....software, manuals, monitor...Everything in it the same as the day it was bought.
- author: Randall B.B. Parker (United States)
date: Wednesday 3rd June 2015
text: I have a micro 16s complete VNIB. anyone know what its worth...Has everything.....software, manuals, monitor...Everything in it the same as the day it was bought.
- author: Kim Kasdorf (Chapel Hill, NC USA)
date: Tuesday 18th March 2014
text: My second computer was a Micro 16s. I even bought the external SCSI 5 mb hard disk. I still have the entire system with original manuals, advertising brochures, software and original packaging. This has all been in storage since the early 1980''s, but it worked when I put it away. I would love to sell this system to someone who has a computer collection or museum. If interested, please contact me through this site.
- author: Dave Marsee (Southern California)
date: Wednesday 9th November 2011
text: I worked for Fujitsu in the 1980s and we used the Micro 16s. I don''t have the computer, but I do have a set of software floppy discs and manuals. They are for the CPM-86 operating system, Supercalc, and Wordstar. I was going to toss these out, but thought someone might be interested. They are free, but would appreciate being compensated for the shipping charges if out of Southern California.
- author: Keith Mikesell (Pittsburgh, PA)
date: Wednesday 5th October 2011
text: |-
Back in 1984, I worked for a Canon copier dealership in Austin, TX, that also began selling the Fujitsu Micro 16s. I was sent to Santa Clara, CA, and was trained by Fujitsu on maintenance and repair.
I''m not sure how many we sold over the next year, but I believe I only made three repairs$ all for the same problem. There was an issue with a bearing that was seated in the center of each of the 5.25 floppy drives. It either was manufactured with a defect or rapidly developed a burr that would cause high-pitched squealing of the drive when it spun a disc. The solution was to take a very fine nail file and remove the burr.
Aside from that, they seemed to offer no serious problems and worked quite well. That''s about all I can remember about them.
A sidebar memory was that my daughter was born two months premature while I was attending the school, so I missed her birth. I''m still trying to live down not being there.
- author: David Moss (USA)
date: Friday 17th December 2010
text: during the 80''s I worked for a company called "The Computer Center" in Juneau, Alaska. We sold the Fujitsu Micro 16, mostly to the State. Due to the fact that it used ms-dos and not pc-dos (IBM version) it was unable to run such programs as lotus 1-2-3 and others that the state used, and therefor sales were slow. I developed a plugin emulator board and software to allow the computer to run many of these programs. We sold several hundred of the boards at about $600 each. I still have a few of them! I''ve been looking for a Micro 16 to add to my collection if anyone knows of one!
oc_id: 888
source:
url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230608155636/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=888
date: '2023-06-08'
---
The Micro 16s was designed to be a powerful package of hardware and software in a professional business system. It offered a unique architectural design for the time: interchangeable microprocessors and thus operating systems. In fact most commonly used processors were Intel 8086 and Zilog Z80.
One or two processor boards could be plugged into the Micro 16s and either one could be in control of the bus, the memory, etc.\
Fujitsu also planned to launch Motorola 68000, Intel 80286 and Zilog Z8000 boards.
RAM memory boards could be added, from 128 KB to 1024 KB, thanks to the new 256 K-bit RAM chips.\
Fujitsu color graphics video terminal was handled by an independant video processor located onto the mainboard. A standard RGB monitor could be connected as well and used simultaneously.
With the Micro 16s, Fujitsu offered a very versatile system able to oparate all of the major microprocessors of the time, and run all existing operating systems.
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