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+---
+title: Sord M 170
+categories:
+- Computers
+types:
+- Professional Computer
+origins:
+- Japan
+years:
+- '1978'
+cpus:
+- Z80
+params:
+  name: M 170
+  company: /companies/sord
+  company_name: Sord
+  specs:
+  - label: NAME
+    value: M 170
+  - label: MANUFACTURER
+    value: Sord
+  - label: TYPE
+    value: Professional Computer
+  - label: ORIGIN
+    value: Japan
+  - label: YEAR
+    value: May 1978
+  - label: END OF PRODUCTION
+    value: Unknown
+  - label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE
+    value: ROM monitor
+  - label: KEYBOARD
+    value: Full-stroke keyboard. 56 keys + 18 function and numeric keypad
+  - label: CPU
+    value: Z80
+  - label: SPEED
+    value: 2 MHz (a few cranked it up to 4)
+  - label: RAM
+    value: 16 KB or 32 KB (Model B)
+  - label: ROM
+    value: 4 KB (Monitor program)
+  - label: TEXT MODES
+    value: 64 chars. x 24 lines.
+  - label: GRAPHIC MODES
+    value: 'ACE version: 320 x 256 monochrome or 160 x 256'
+  - label: COLORS
+    value: 8 colours
+  - label: SOUND
+    value: Two octaves tone generator
+  - label: SIZE / WEIGHT
+    value: unknown
+  - label: I/O PORTS
+    value: S-100 bus, Parallel I/O, Serial (300 to 9600 baud), A/D converter, 2 x tape recorder, color or B/W monitor
+  - label: OS
+    value: ACEDOS
+  - label: POWER SUPPLY
+    value: External power supply unit 5V/4A, 12V/0.5A (or built in the ACE extension)
+  - label: PERIPHERALS
+    value: 2 x tape recorders - 1 to 3 x 5''1/4 disk-drives
+  - label: PRICE
+    value: 'Basic version: 1500'
+  tabs:
+  - photos
+  - adverts
+  photos:
+  - title: M110 BLOC DIAGRAM
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: |-
+      Taken from the Sord leaflet
+
+      Thanks to **Tim Mackay**
+    image: null
+  adverts:
+  - title: FRENCH AD (JAN. 1980)
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: null
+  - title: M-170 ADVERT
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: Thanks to **Tim Mackay**
+    image: null
+  comments:
+  - author: EPROM 9 (England)
+    date: Monday 8th August 2011
+    text: If it went in the skip at school, I took it despite being told not to. I still save computers and electronics from skips today. I would have taken all the machines and stashed them away salfly so I could take them home at a later date
+  - author: Tim Mackay (Australia)
+    date: Saturday 25th October 2003
+    text: |-
+      Where is the landfill?
+
+      Such is the lot of 99% of computers ever made.
+
+      Even the awesome ones.
+  - author: Mark P (bangor, uk)
+    date: Friday 5th April 2002
+    text: this machine looks suspiciously like something that was among a whole stack of vintage machines my high school had... and then unceremoniously dumped in a skip one day to be taken for landfill! shame on them! no protest or suggestion of sale to museum could stop it.. fools
+  oc_id: 469
+  source:
+    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230608210900/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=469
+    date: '2023-06-08'
+---
+
+The M-170 computer was originaly sold as a home computer but, as it was a very reliable system, many companies used it as a small business system. It was derived from the M-100, M-110 home systems.
+
+Basic version was supplied with a Hitachi monitor, an external power supply unit and a cassette recorder (the M-170 could manage two tape recorders simultaneously). There was no programming langage built in the computer, only a monitor including 19 commands. One of them allowed the user to load the Sord BASIC interpreter.
+
+The **ACE** version used from one to three 5.25" - 143 KB floppy drives units with a more advanced BASIC interpreter, and a graphic display card. A FORTRAN compiler was also available.
+
+<table> <tr> <td></td> <td>We need more info about this computer ! If you designed, used, or have more info about this system, please send us pictures or anything you might find useful.</td> <td></td> </tr> </table>