website/content/museum/sord-m-170.md

title, categories, types, origins, years, cpus, params

title	categories	types	origins	years	cpus	params
Sord M 170	Computers	Professional Computer	Japan	1978	Z80	name company company_name specs tabs photos adverts comments oc_id source M 170 /companies/sord Sord label value NAME M 170 label value MANUFACTURER Sord label value TYPE Professional Computer label value ORIGIN Japan label value YEAR May 1978 label value END OF PRODUCTION Unknown label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE ROM monitor label value KEYBOARD Full-stroke keyboard. 56 keys + 18 function and numeric keypad label value CPU Z80 label value SPEED 2 MHz (a few cranked it up to 4) label value RAM 16 KB or 32 KB (Model B) label value ROM 4 KB (Monitor program) label value TEXT MODES 64 chars. x 24 lines. label value GRAPHIC MODES ACE version: 320 x 256 monochrome or 160 x 256 label value COLORS 8 colours label value SOUND Two octaves tone generator label value SIZE / WEIGHT unknown label value I/O PORTS S-100 bus, Parallel I/O, Serial (300 to 9600 baud), A/D converter, 2 x tape recorder, color or B/W monitor label value OS ACEDOS label value POWER SUPPLY External power supply unit 5V/4A, 12V/0.5A (or built in the ACE extension) label value PERIPHERALS 2 x tape recorders - 1 to 3 x 5''1/4 disk-drives label value PRICE Basic version: 1500 photos adverts title subtitle text image M110 BLOC DIAGRAM Taken from the Sord leaflet Thanks to **Tim Mackay** null title subtitle text image FRENCH AD (JAN. 1980) null title subtitle text image M-170 ADVERT Thanks to **Tim Mackay** null author date text EPROM 9 (England) Monday 8th August 2011 If it went in the skip at school, I took it despite being told not to. I still save computers and electronics from skips today. I would have taken all the machines and stashed them away salfly so I could take them home at a later date author date text Tim Mackay (Australia) Saturday 25th October 2003 Where is the landfill? Such is the lot of 99% of computers ever made. Even the awesome ones. author date text Mark P (bangor, uk) Friday 5th April 2002 this machine looks suspiciously like something that was among a whole stack of vintage machines my high school had... and then unceremoniously dumped in a skip one day to be taken for landfill! shame on them! no protest or suggestion of sale to museum could stop it.. fools 469 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230608210900/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=469 2023-06-08

The M-170 computer was originaly sold as a home computer but, as it was a very reliable system, many companies used it as a small business system. It was derived from the M-100, M-110 home systems.

Basic version was supplied with a Hitachi monitor, an external power supply unit and a cassette recorder (the M-170 could manage two tape recorders simultaneously). There was no programming langage built in the computer, only a monitor including 19 commands. One of them allowed the user to load the Sord BASIC interpreter.

The ACE version used from one to three 5.25" - 143 KB floppy drives units with a more advanced BASIC interpreter, and a graphic display card. A FORTRAN compiler was also available.

We need more info about this computer ! If you designed, used, or have more info about this system, please send us pictures or anything you might find useful.