---
title: Canon V-25
categories:
- Computers
types:
- Home Computer
origins:
- Japan
years:
- '1984'
cpus:
- Z80A
params:
  name: V-25
  image: /media/museum/photos/canon_v25_3s.jpg
  company: /companies/canon
  company_name: Canon
  specs:
  - label: NAME
    value: V-25
  - label: MANUFACTURER
    value: Canon
  - label: TYPE
    value: Home Computer
  - label: ORIGIN
    value: Japan
  - label: YEAR
    value: 1984 ?
  - label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE
    value: Microsoft Extended Basic
  - label: KEYBOARD
    value: |-
      QWERTY, mechanical keyboard\
      Same keyboard as Canon V-20, with 4 big cursor keys on right
  - label: CPU
    value: Z80A
  - label: SPEED
    value: 3,6 Mhz ?
  - label: CO-PROCESSOR
    value: Video Display Processor Yamaha V9938
  - label: RAM
    value: 64 kb
  - label: VRAM
    value: 64 kb
  - label: ROM
    value: 32 kb
  - label: TEXT MODES
    value: 40 x 24 or 80 x 24
  - label: GRAPHIC MODES
    value: up to 512 x 424 with 16 colors chosen from a 512 colors palette
  - label: COLORS
    value: '512'
  - label: SOUND
    value: |-
      General Instrument AY-2-8910 sound generator\
      3 voices, 8 octaves
  tabs:
  - photos
  - emulators
  - links
  forum_thread: 426
  photos:
  - title: CANON V-25
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/photos/canon_v25_3.jpg
  - title: REAR
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/photos/canon_v25_rear.jpg
  - title: KEYBOARD CLOSE-UP
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/photos/canon_v25_keyboard.jpg
  emulators:
  - title: BlueMSX
    url: http://www.bluemsx.com/
    platform: Windows
    text: Excellent free MSX emulator
  - title: fMSX32
    url: HTTP://WWW.RETRODEV.INFO/
    platform: Other platform
    text: The excellent fMSX, but ported onto the GamePark GP32 handheld console.
  - title: openMSX - The MSX emulator that aims for perfection.
    url: http://openmsx.sourceforge.net/
    platform: Multiplatform
    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.
  links:
  - title: MSX Faq
    url: http://www.faq.msxnet.org
    text: Here, you can find near all hardware pieces related to MSX.
  related:
  - /museum/jvc-hc-95
  - /museum/kawai-kmc-5000
  - /museum/msx-2
  - /museum/panasonic-fs-a1
  - /museum/panasonic-fs-a1f
  - /museum/sony-hit-bit-f1xd
  - /museum/sony-hit-bit-f500
  - /museum/sony-hit-bit-f700
  - /museum/sony-hit-bit-f9
  - /museum/sony-hit-bit-g900f
  oc_id: 430
  source:
    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230602083424/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=430
    date: '2023-06-02'
---

This was a small MSX 2 computer it had "only" 64 KB of VRAM (the minimum required in MSX2 specifications) and no floppy drive usually found on MSX2 computers.

<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>