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title	categories	types	origins	years	cpus	params
Toshiba PASOPIA	Computers	Home Computer	Japan	1981	Z80A	name image company company_name specs tabs forum_thread adverts links oc_id source PASOPIA /media/museum/photos/toshiba_pasopia_1.jpg /companies/toshiba Toshiba label value NAME PASOPIA label value MANUFACTURER Toshiba label value TYPE Home Computer label value ORIGIN Japan label value YEAR 1981 label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE Model PA7010 : T-BASIC\ Model PA7012 : OA-BASIC label value KEYBOARD Full-stroke keyboard, JIS standard, 90 keys, separated numeric keypad, 8 function keys (16 functions) label value CPU Z80A label value SPEED 4 Mhz label value RAM 64 kb label value VRAM 16 kb label value ROM 32 kb label value TEXT MODES 80 x 20, 80 x 25, 36 x 24, 36 x 19 label value GRAPHIC MODES 160 x 100, 640 x 200 label value COLORS 8 (black, blue, red, purple, green, cyan, yellow and white) label value SOUND 3 octaves (speaker built-in) label value SIZE / WEIGHT 420 x 253 x 99.5 mm label value I/O PORTS Video out, Tape interface (1600 baud), RS232c, Parallel connector, Expansion bus label value POWER SUPPLY AC100V +- 10%, 50 / 60Hz label value PERIPHERALS Disk-drives, RAM expansions, printers label value PRICE 163 000 yens (September 81, Japan) adverts links 409 title subtitle text image JAPANESE ADVERT Thanks to [Soichiro Oga](http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/people/s-oga/) for this picture ! /media/museum/pubs/toshiba_pasopia_ad1.jpg title url text S. Kato's Museum http://member.nifty.ne.jp/s-kato/pasopia.html Has a Pasopia detailed page (Japanese) 412 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230608080821/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=412 2023-06-08

This is the first home-computer made by Toshiba and was quite powerful for 1981 : 64k RAM, 80 columns, 640 x 200 high resolution and large expansion possibilities.

There were two models : the PA7010 with the T-BASIC built-in, and the PA7012 with the OA-BASIC built-in.
The advantage of the OA-BASIC is that it can use indexed sequential access methods to handle files, and has an automatic load / run function for launching programs. It can also handle Chinese characters directly within BASIC. Finally it has a Terminal mode.