website/content/museum/casio-fp-1000-fp-1100.md

---
title: Casio FP 1000 / FP 1100
categories:
- Computers
types:
- Professional Computer
origins:
- Japan
years:
- '1983'
cpus:
- Zilog Z80 A
params:
  name: FP 1000 / FP 1100
  image: /media/museum/photos/casio_fp1000_1.jpg
  company: /companies/casio
  company_name: Casio
  specs:
  - label: NAME
    value: FP 1000 / FP 1100
  - label: MANUFACTURER
    value: Casio
  - label: TYPE
    value: Professional Computer
  - label: ORIGIN
    value: Japan
  - label: YEAR
    value: '1983'
  - label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE
    value: C82 BASIC
  - label: KEYBOARD
    value: QWERTY full-stroke keyboard with separated numeric keypad
  - label: CPU
    value: Zilog Z80 A
  - label: SPEED
    value: 3.9936 MHz
  - label: CO-PROCESSOR
    value: PD7801G (1.9968 MHz)
  - label: RAM
    value: 64 KB
  - label: VRAM
    value: |-
      FP-1000 : 16 KB\
      FP-1100 : 48 KB
  - label: ROM
    value: 32 KB
  - label: TEXT MODES
    value: 80 x 25
  - label: GRAPHIC MODES
    value: 320 x 200 / 640 x 200 / 640 x 400
  - label: COLORS
    value: |-
      FP-1000 : Monochrome (black & green)\
      FP-1100 : 8
  - label: SOUND
    value: Unknown
  - label: SIZE / WEIGHT
    value: Unknown
  - label: I/O PORTS
    value: Parallel/Centronics, Tape, Monitor, Expansion Slots (2)
  - label: OS
    value: CP/M
  - label: POWER SUPPLY
    value: Built-in Power Supply Unit
  - label: PERIPHERALS
    value: Double 5''1/4 disk-drives or optional dual 8'' 1.2 MB FD unit (could emulate IBM 3741 format)
  - label: PRICE
    value: 'FP 1000 : 7300 FF (France, dec.83)'
  tabs:
  - photos
  - adverts
  - hardware
  - connectors
  photos:
  - title: MAIN UNIT CLOSE-UP
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/photos/casio_fp1000_unitcloseup_1.jpg
  - title: FP-1100
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/photos/casio_fp1100_1.jpg
  adverts:
  - title: FRENCH AD (DEC.1983)
    subtitle: ''
    text: '"Evolutiv system : Casio''s answer"'
    image: /media/museum/pubs/casio_fp1000_pub-popcornmicro.jpg
  - title: JAPANESE AD
    subtitle: ''
    text: Thanks to Jun Suzuki [web site](http://member.nifty.ne.jp/tarucus/museum/cool/cool.htm)
    image: /media/museum/pubs/casio_fp1000_pub_1.jpg
  - title: ADVERT
    subtitle: ''
    text: Thanks to Rui Santos for this picture
    image: /media/museum/pubs/casio_fp1000_pub_0.jpg
  hardware:
  - title: DOUBLE DISK DRIVE
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/hardware/casio_fp1020fd_1.jpg
  - title: ANOTHER PICTURE
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/hardware/casio_fp1000_fdunit_1.jpg
  connectors:
  - title: COLOR-CONNECTOR RGB TTL
    subtitle: 8 Pin DIN
    text: |-
      **(1)** +12V\
      **(2)** GND\
      **(3)** Free\
      **(4)** Hsync\
      **(5)** Vsync\
      **(6)** Red\
      **(7)** Green\
      **(8)** Blue

      H,VSync: neg. TTL\
      R,G,B: pos. TTL

      Thanks to **Guido Zeiger**
    image: /media/museum/connectors/casio_fp1000_din8_s1.jpg
  - title: MONOCHROME CONNECTOR
    subtitle: 5-pin DIN
    text: |-
      **(1)** +12V\
      **(2)** NC\
      **(3)** Video - 75 Ohm, 1Vp-p\
      **(4)** GND\
      **(5)** Light pen

      Thanks to **Guido Zeiger**
    image: /media/museum/connectors/casio_fp1000_din5_s1.jpg
  comments:
  - author: Bernard Van Haecke (USA)
    date: Sunday 18th February 2018
    text: I only had the dual 5 1/4 floppy drive unit. I connected it to my Sinclair ZX Spectrum with some floppy interface bought in the UK. The drives made a funny noise when starting up. Also had a slightly newer Casio keyboard model and hacked the PCB traces to connect it to the Spectrum mainboard. I wish I could play with these again.
  - author: VITAS
    date: Thursday 30th May 2013
    text: I still have a FP1100. I saved it in 96 when my school was throwing them out. Sometimes i play with it when i want some retro feeling :)
  - author: Joscelyn Flores (France)
    date: Friday 4th January 2013
    text: 'Now that Youtube exists, I found it funny to upload a couple of Casio demos and games running on my FP-1100. You can find them on my Youtube channel : http://www.youtube.com/user/monolith7777777/videos'
  - author: Marco G (Portugal)
    date: Saturday 21st April 2012
    text: |-
      This was the first PC I laid my hands on !

      With a FP-1000, I learned BASIC and Pascal and got my first programmer diploma at the age of 12.
  - author: Hamed Abulfatih (Bahrain)
    date: Thursday 11th August 2011
    text: this brings back lots of good memories! it was the first PC I ever used and I was 7 years old :) made me love IT. I remember running lotus 123, paratrooper and microsoft flight sim!
  - author: EPROM 9 (England)
    date: Friday 10th June 2011
    text: One thing that is not noted here is the Casio FP 1100 computer could also support Dual CPU. I don''t know if it was standard for that model. It was at least an option.
  - author: Juergen Leibner (Bielefeld, Germany)
    date: Sunday 13rd August 2006
    text: |-
      I owned a FP-1100 with several extensions from 1986 until 2006. Then it was recycled :-(\
      But the compolete Systemsoftware and documentation is still available. Feel free to mail me for information about.
  - author: Joscelyn Flores (Paris, France)
    date: Monday 23rd August 2004
    text: I still have an FP-1100 with dual floppy drive in perfect working condition. I was wondering if there was any known way to read back FP-1020FD floppies on a PC ? I have lots of software to share. Also, it would be nice to gather homemade software made by others. Since there is almost no information on this computer (also on FP-200 and 6000 by the way), I am projecting to create a website dedicated to these computers. I have all the user AND service manuals - I only must find the time to scan them :)
  - author: Rui M. Dos santos (Luanda-Angola-Africa)
    date: Monday 3rd February 2003
    text: I sold several FP1000/1100 Casio´s in Angola. I developed for them a number of business aplications made in COBOL running under CP/M.. These machines were the more reliable I ever sold, owned and used in my life. Many years of intense work in harsh enviroments and NONE of the around 50 machienes I sold ever broke down...AND I can tell you that they REALLY worked hard.... AT the time the configuration I used used to have two 8 inch high density FDD....GREAT MACHINE .....
  oc_id: 101
  source:
    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230605035633/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=101
    date: '2023-06-05'
---

The Casio FP-1000 and FP-1100 were essentially the same machine, except that the 1100 had colour capabilities, 48 KB VRAM and enhanced graphic mode (640 x 400).

The FP-1100 came with either a monochrome (green) monitor which would display colour as shades, or the colour monitor. The cable feeding the video to the monitor was a simple 2 core unsheilded RCA cable. The mono minitor had a switch at the back so that one could swap foreground and background (green on black or black on green)

Both the FP-1000 and FP-1100 had a built in OS called C82 BASIC. To run CP/M, you had to insert your systems diskette and reboot the computer, or if the program diskette had it's own boot strap, you could issue a "mount \[1,2\]" command where the number \[1/2\] indicated the diskette drive you wanted to use.

You could run multiple console sessions on the FP-1000/1100 toggling between them with the blue function keyboard keys that can be seen on the image. Some programs (eg SuperCalc) ussurped these keys and you were stuck in the console session until you stopped the program.

Thanks to **Zieg Nielsen** for the info.