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title: Sony Hit-Bit 75
categories:
- Computers
params:
name: Hit-Bit 75
company: /companies/sony
company_name: Sony
tabs:
- photos
- adverts
- hardware
- software
- emulators
- links
- videos
photos:
- title: HIT-BIT 75P
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: null
- title: HIT-BIT 75P
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: null
- title: HIT-BIT 75F
subtitle: ''
text: The French model
image: null
- title: REAR VIEW
subtitle: ''
text: Here is the back of the HB-75P system. You can easily spot the second cartridge slot wich serves as an expansion port. There is also a Scart video output.
image: null
- title: 'REAR #2'
subtitle: ''
text: 'From left to right: Centronics interface, RF TV video output, Audio/RGB Video output, Tape interface, SCART female connector and power cord.'
image: null
adverts:
- title: JAPANESE ADVERT.
subtitle: ''
text: She seems so happy to have an Hit-Bit...
image: null
- title: FRENCH ADVERT (JUNE 1985)
subtitle: ''
text: |-
"It's new. It's the Hit-Bit"
"The computer according to Sony"
image: null
hardware:
- title: SOME SONY EXTENSIONS
subtitle: ''
text: We can see here some of the Sony extensions available in 1985. There is a Tape-recorder, some joysticks (one is infra-red controled), a disk-drive, a plotter and a trackball.
image: null
- title: SONY 3'' 1/2DISK-DRIVE
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: null
- title: SONY INFRA-RED JOYSTICK
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: null
- title: SONY JOYSTICK
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: null
- title: SONY PRINTER
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: null
- title: SONY PRINTER
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: null
- title: SONY PRINTER
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: null
- title: SONY TAPE-RECORDER
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: null
- title: SONY TRACK-BALL
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: null
- title: NATIONAL CF-2131
subtitle: 16 KB RAM expansion
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/national_cf2131_16k-cart.jpg
- title: CASIO OR-216 - 16 KB RAM EXPANSION
subtitle: Box
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/casio_or216_16kbramexpansion_box.jpg
- title: PHILIPS RAM EXPANSION
subtitle: ''
text: |-
RAM expansion and LOGO language cartridges.
Thanks to Daniele from Italy
image: /media/museum/hardware/philips_vg8020_cartridges_s1.jpg
- title: MEGA RAM DISK 256
subtitle: from DDX (Brazil)
text: This is the famous Megaram cartridge made in Brzail, used to play all Konami cracked Megarom games.6401999243
image: /media/museum/hardware/msx_megaram256-ddx_1.jpg
- title: PANASONIC FS-IFA1 & FW-RSU1W
subtitle: Scanner/Printer interface
text: 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.
image: /media/museum/hardware/msx_fs-ifa1_fw-rsu1w.jpg
- title: SONY HBI-232
subtitle: RS232c cartridge
text: Used to connect serial printers.
image: /media/museum/hardware/sony_msx_rs232c-cartridge.jpg
- title: 'YAMAHA MOUSE #1'
subtitle: ''
text: |-
This mouse was compatible with all MSX systems. It connects to the first Joystick port.
Thanks to **www.zonadepruebas.com**
image: /media/museum/hardware/yamaha_mouse_s2.jpg
- title: 'YAMAHA MOUSE #2'
subtitle: ''
text: |-
Brand new!
Thanks to **www.zonadepruebas.com**
image: /media/museum/hardware/yamaha_mouse_s1.jpg
- title: PHILIPS VW0020
subtitle: 80-col dot-matrix printer
text: |-
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.
image: /media/museum/hardware/philips_vg8020_printervw0020_s1.jpg
- title: SANYO PHC-DR II
subtitle: Side
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/sanyo_phc-drii_side_1.jpg
- title: SANYO PHC-DR II
subtitle: Front
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/sanyo_phc-drii_front_1.jpg
- title: SANYO DR-202
subtitle: ''
text: 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.
image: /media/museum/hardware/sanyo_phc28_dr202tapedrive_s1.jpg
- title: NATIONAL RQ-8030
subtitle: tape-recorder
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/national_tape_rq8030.jpg
- title: BIT-CORDER
subtitle: ''
text: Cassete recorder dedicated to Hit-Bit MSX systems, though it could be used with any home computers.
image: /media/museum/hardware/sony_hb201_bitcorder_1.jpg
screenshots:
- title: BUILT-IN SOFTWARE
subtitle: Menu screenshot
text: ''
image: null
emulators:
- title: fMSX for MS DOS Homepage
url: http://www.komkon.org/~dekogel/fmsx.html
platform: MS DOS
text: ''
- title: BlueMSX
url: http://www.bluemsx.com/
platform: Windows
text: Excellent free MSX emulator
- title: BrMSX
url: http://www.lsi.usp.br/~ricardo/brmsx.htm
platform: Windows
text: A Bresilian MSX Emulator written in 100% assembler
- title: CompuJunk's MSX Emulator
url: http://ftp.castel.nl/msx/
platform: Windows
text: A MSX1 and MSX2 Emulator
- title: RuMSX
url: http://members.eunet.at/lexlechz/msx.html
platform: Windows
text: A MSX Emulator for Win95 and Win NT + Direct X
- title: fMSX for MAC OS Homepage
url: http://www.emulation.net/msx/index.html
platform: Apple
text: ''
- title: fMSX official Homepage
url: http://www.komkon.org/fms/fMSX
platform: Multiplatform
text: '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.'
- 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: Baboo!
url: http://www.baboo.net/baboo.shtml
text: MSX dedicated Yahoo clone. Essential !
- title: FILE-HUNTER.COM
url: http://www.file-hunter.com/
text: Excellent! All MSX emulators, sources and utilities!
- title: FTP da MSXBr-L/MSX.Org.Br
url: http://www.caetano.eng.br/msxsoft/
text: Excellent brasilian software archive
- title: MOAI TECH
url: http://www.moai-tech.com/
text: Spanish/English website with interesting content
- title: MSX Hardware List
url: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/hardware.html
text: An impressive list of MSX hardware. The Bible !!!
- title: MSX Ressource Center
url: http://www.msx.org/
text: Essential site !
- title: Possi's Konami MSX Page
url: http://dynamo.geol.msu.ru/MSX/
text: Nice page dedicated to all Konami MSX games (roms, scans, mids, etc.)
- title: The MSX Games Box
url: http://www.msxgamesbox.com
text: All about MSX gaming (games, covers.etc.). More Fun, Less Mhz!
- title: The MSX Museum BOX
url: http://www.msxmuseumbox.com
text: More than 190 different MSX models in pictures.
- title: The ultimate MSX Faq
url: http://www.faq.msxnet.org
text: Here, you can find near all hardware pieces related to MSX.
- title: Web Wiz CAPTCHA
url: http://www.webwizcaptcha.com
text: The MSX home computer system
videos:
- title: Hit-Bit japanese TV commercial
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAYspNJheWA
text: 'Length: 15 s'
comments:
- author: fireb0y (España)
date: Saturday 10th August 2019
text: Very good and reliable computer, my first home computer ever. The cursor keys were good, but they fail about time because the switches used by Sony, but nowadays are easy to find replacement.
- author: CARLOS (SPAIN)
date: Sunday 18th November 2012
text: I SELL ONE. SOMEBODY INTERESTED¿
- author: MsxKun
date: Monday 18th June 2012
text: You can connect a disk drive to \*ANY\* of the cartridge slots, same as on any MSX, not specifically 2nd slot...
- author: ESLES (DSS)
date: Tuesday 17th January 2012
text: My second one... Love too
- author: Niles (Madrid (Spain))
date: Thursday 22nd September 2005
text: |-
HB75P Service Manual downloadable at
http://members.chello.nl/h.otten/fronthw.htm
as many others MSX documents ^ ^
- author: Niles (Madrid (Spain))
date: Thursday 23rd January 2003
text: |-
we can find a scanned operating manual of this machine at http://www.msxhans.msx2.com\
... great !!
- author: Niles (Madrid (Spain))
date: Tuesday 16th July 2002
text: |-
I see many people remarks his first computer. Well, this wonder machine was my first computer, in 1985, and I'm still using it! :D\
Best Regards.
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oc_id: 436
source:
url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230328215515/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=436
date: '2023-03-28'
---
This is a quite popular [MSX 1](/museum/msx-1/) computer. As soon as it was available (in Europe at least), a lot of extensions were already available too, making the HB-75 a quite complete system. It is also a quite well designed computer.
There's a built-in piece of software (Personal Data Bank) available on startup and composed of an agenda (scheduler), a memo, an address manager and a transfer utility. And you could save your work via a special RAM cartridge.
There is a ROM of 48 KB : 16 KB for the integrated software and 32 KB for the Basic. The RAM is composed of 64 KB and 16 KB for the video. You can connect a disk drive controller to the second cartridge slot which is at the back of the computer, the primary cartridge slot being on top.
Foreign models where named HB-75F for France, HB-75D for Germany or HB-75P for PAL models...
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