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Canon V-20
Computers
Home Computer
Japan
1983
Z80A
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V-20 /companies/canon Canon
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NAME V-20
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MANUFACTURER Canon
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TYPE Home Computer
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ORIGIN Japan
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YEAR 1983
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BUILT IN LANGUAGE Microsoft Extended Basic
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KEYBOARD QWERTY, mechanical keyboard\ 59 keys, 4 big cursor keys
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CPU Z80A
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SPEED 3,6 Mhz
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RAM V-20 : 64 kb, 30 kb left for user
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ROM 32 kb
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TEXT MODES 24 x 40
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GRAPHIC MODES 256 x 192, 32 sprites
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COLORS 16
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SOUND General Instrument AY-2-8910 sound generator\ 3 voices, 8 octaves
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SIZE / WEIGHT Unknown
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I/O PORTS Printer connector, Tape Interface (DIN8), Audio & Video output (DIN8), Two cartridge slots, 2 joystick connectors
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POWER SUPPLY PSU built-in
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PRICE 487 (august 85)
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CANON V-20 Another picture of this cool system null
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FRENCH ADVERT "Neurons' jogging" null
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FV100 - FDD UNIT 3.5" 720 KB FDD unit with interface card which is plugged in the cartridge slot. null
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NATIONAL CF-2131 16 KB RAM expansion /media/museum/hardware/national_cf2131_16k-cart.jpg
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CASIO OR-216 - 16 KB RAM EXPANSION Box /media/museum/hardware/casio_or216_16kbramexpansion_box.jpg
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PHILIPS RAM EXPANSION RAM expansion and LOGO language cartridges. Thanks to Daniele from Italy /media/museum/hardware/philips_vg8020_cartridges_s1.jpg
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MEGA RAM DISK 256 from DDX (Brazil) This is the famous Megaram cartridge made in Brzail, used to play all Konami cracked Megarom games.6401999243 /media/museum/hardware/msx_megaram256-ddx_1.jpg
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DATA MEMORY BACK T90 from Canon The Canon V20 was able to receive photos from the T90 Canon camera with the Data Memory Back T90 expansion (which allowed to connect the camera to the Canon V20, or probably any other MSX computer) and download pictures, as you can do now with a digital camera! Francisco Martín null
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PANASONIC FS-IFA1 & FW-RSU1W Scanner/Printer interface The FS-IFA1 is the printer/scanner interface (left on the picture) and the FW-RSU1W is the handheld scanner (right on the picture). These expansions are for MSX2 systems. /media/museum/hardware/msx_fs-ifa1_fw-rsu1w.jpg
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SONY HBI-232 RS232c cartridge Used to connect serial printers. /media/museum/hardware/sony_msx_rs232c-cartridge.jpg
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YAMAHA MOUSE #1 This mouse was compatible with all MSX systems. It connects to the first Joystick port. Thanks to **www.zonadepruebas.com** /media/museum/hardware/yamaha_mouse_s2.jpg
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YAMAHA MOUSE #2 Brand new! Thanks to **www.zonadepruebas.com** /media/museum/hardware/yamaha_mouse_s1.jpg
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PHILIPS VW0020 80-col dot-matrix printer This printer was a rebadged version of the Seikosha GP-500.\ It was a 80-column, 50 CPS model with a 7x5 dot matrix head.\ Commodore and Atari used same hardware basis for their MPS-801 and 1029 printers. /media/museum/hardware/philips_vg8020_printervw0020_s1.jpg
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SANYO PHC-DR II Side /media/museum/hardware/sanyo_phc-drii_side_1.jpg
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SANYO PHC-DR II Front /media/museum/hardware/sanyo_phc-drii_front_1.jpg
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SANYO DR-202 The ADSS system allowed to quickly search a specific program in a cassette tape and load it. Seach time for a C60 cassette was less than 1 minute. /media/museum/hardware/sanyo_phc28_dr202tapedrive_s1.jpg
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NATIONAL RQ-8030 tape-recorder /media/museum/hardware/national_tape_rq8030.jpg
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BIT-CORDER Cassete recorder dedicated to Hit-Bit MSX systems, though it could be used with any home computers. /media/museum/hardware/sony_hb201_bitcorder_1.jpg
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fMSX for MS DOS Homepage http://www.komkon.org/~dekogel/fmsx.html MS DOS
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BlueMSX http://www.bluemsx.com/ Windows Excellent free MSX emulator
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BrMSX http://www.lsi.usp.br/~ricardo/brmsx.htm Windows A Bresilian MSX Emulator written in 100% assembler
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CompuJunk's MSX Emulator http://ftp.castel.nl/msx/ Windows A MSX1 and MSX2 Emulator
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RuMSX http://members.eunet.at/lexlechz/msx.html Windows A MSX Emulator for Win95 and Win NT + Direct X
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fMSX for MAC OS Homepage http://www.emulation.net/msx/index.html Apple
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fMSX official Homepage http://www.komkon.org/fms/fMSX Multiplatform fMSX is a portable MSX emulator ported on : Amiga OS, Mac OS, MS DOS, OS/2, Sony Playstation, Risc OS, Towns OS, Unix / X, Win95 / NT, X68K.
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openMSX - The MSX emulator that aims for perfection. http://openmsx.sourceforge.net/ Multiplatform 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.
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Baboo! http://www.baboo.net/baboo.shtml MSX dedicated Yahoo clone. Essential !
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FILE-HUNTER.COM http://www.file-hunter.com/ Excellent! All MSX emulators, sources and utilities!
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FTP da MSXBr-L/MSX.Org.Br http://www.caetano.eng.br/msxsoft/ Excellent brasilian software archive
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MOAI TECH http://www.moai-tech.com/ Spanish/English website with interesting content
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MSX Hardware List http://www.faq.msxnet.org/hardware.html An impressive list of MSX hardware. The Bible !!!
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MSX Ressource Center http://www.msx.org/ Essential site !
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Possi's Konami MSX Page http://dynamo.geol.msu.ru/MSX/ Nice page dedicated to all Konami MSX games (roms, scans, mids, etc.)
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The MSX Games Box http://www.msxgamesbox.com All about MSX gaming (games, covers.etc.). More Fun, Less Mhz!
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The MSX Museum BOX http://www.msxmuseumbox.com More than 190 different MSX models in pictures.
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The ultimate MSX Faq http://www.faq.msxnet.org Here, you can find near all hardware pieces related to MSX.
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Web Wiz CAPTCHA http://www.webwizcaptcha.com The MSX home computer system
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Shadow_Warrior (Spain) Thursday 24th May 2012 Hello Spyros and Lewis Collard, I think he has been reading what''s said around here (that could be the origin of this mistake): http://museo8bits.com/ficha.php?nombre$canon_v20 Where you can find this at the "Varios" paragraph:"Pero en donde destaca es en la interfaz para una cámara digital (uno de los puntos fuertes de Canon) que permite capturar imágenes e incluso vídeo". It means: "where it stands out is on the interface for a digital camera (one of the Canon strengths) which lets to capture pictures and even video".
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Spyros (Greece) Friday 30th March 2012 It is not true that this computer -or any other computer- could download pictures from the T90 camera. It was a film-only camera, so in order to get any picture from it into a computer, you would have to digitize it first, using a scanner. What the Data Memory Back actually did was to store shot variables (eg. exposure, viewfinder) and perhaps to imprint them on the photo film in the form of red numbers, like many cameras did at the time.
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Lewis Collard (England) Saturday 19th June 2010 I had sent in a correction by email, but I''m sure the Internet ate it, so here goes. The summary reads: $it was able to receive photos from the T90 Canon camera with the Data Memory Back T90 expansion $...$ and download pictures, as you can do now with a digital camera! The Data Memory Back was entirely unlike a digital camera$ it recorded shooting data like time, shutter speed, aperture, metering mode, etc, but no image as such. It does an entirely different job to a digital back with an imaging sensor.
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Francisco Martín (Madrid, España (Madrid, Spain)) Friday 12th September 2008 Hello you all, this "little" MSX1 has one secret, it was able to receive photos from the T90 Canon camera with the Data Memory Back T90 (which allowed to connect the camera to this MSX (ok, to the MSX standard, although it was intended to be used with this Canon MSX) and download pictures, as you can do now with a digital camera).\ As much as I learnt about the MSX, as much as I''m surprised, in my country MSX was not the most extended computer but I have to recognise that it was a superb standard. Greetings from Spain !!!
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The V-20 is a classic MSX-1 computer. It's basicaly a V-10 with more memory.