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Fujitsu FM R 70
Computers
Professional Computer
Japan
1988
Intel 80386DX
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FM R 70 /media/museum/photos/fujitsu_fmr70_1.jpg /companies/fujitsu Fujitsu
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NAME FM R 70
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MANUFACTURER Fujitsu
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TYPE Professional Computer
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ORIGIN Japan
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YEAR 1988
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BUILT IN LANGUAGE None
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KEYBOARD JIS (Japanese Industrial Standard) keyboard (117 key)\ or "OYAYUBI-shift" Keyboard\ or Extended Emulator Keyboard (for terminal emulation)
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CPU Intel 80386DX
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SPEED 16 MHz (succeeding model had an i386/25MHz)
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CO-PROCESSOR Cirrus Logic CL-GD video subsystem, Math coprocessor
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RAM 584 KB + 2 MB extended RAM up to 10 MB
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VRAM VRAM; Graphic VRAM 512KB + Text VRAM 16KB
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ROM 16KB
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TEXT MODES 80 columns x 25 lines (2byte-KANA 40x25) 24dot KANA/KANJI-character
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GRAPHIC MODES 1120 x 750 dots
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COLORS 16 colours from a 4096 color palette
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SOUND Built-in PC speaker
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SIZE / WEIGHT 47 (W) x 38.5 (D) x 12.5 (H) cm / 18 kg
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I/O PORTS 3 expansion slots, 2 memory slot, Serial RS-232C, Parallel Centronics, FDD-I/F, SCSI-I/F
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BUILT IN MEDIA 2 x 5.25'' floppy drives or 1 x 3.5''+ 1 x 5.25''. 3.5'' 40 MB HDD (probably SCSI)
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OS MS-DOS
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POWER SUPPLY Built-in PSU
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PERIPHERALS Thomas Conrad ethernet adapter.
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PRICE From $2998 to $3995 according to versions
333 328
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https://web.archive.org/web/20230208073702/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=328 2023-02-08

FM R 70 wasn't just an expensive IBM Compatible, but a very sophisticated machine at its time featuring some newly added features common to most modern computers today. In example:
• It came stock with 584 KB Base Memory, and 2MB of Extended RAM Memory (in newly developed SIMMS).
• It featured a newly developed Cirrus Logic CL-GD video subsystem, adapted by many proprietary manufacturers of the late 1980's early 1990's.
• It featured an i386-DX processor, as well as an optional mathematics coprocessor.
• It ran at about 16Mhz and ran MS-DOS and any variations of PC Compatible software, as well as Miscrosoft Windows.
• It used the AT style Keyboard, 2 5" Floppy's, or one 3.25 Floppy and one 5" floppy, VGA/VESA technology and ISA bus.
• It also featured a Thomas Conrad ethernet adapter.

Preceding i286 processor models was called FM-R60 (high-resolution model) and FM-R50 (standard 640x400 dot resolution model).

R60 and R50 had a sub-model with HDD (FM-R60HD /FM-R50HD) and without HDD(FM-R60FD/FM-R50HD).

Mainly, these machines were used as a terminal of Fujitsu M-series(M-3xx/7xx) mainframe, with a F6650 connection card (interface card) and a F6680 emulator software.

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