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title: Sord M 170
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categories:
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- Computers
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types:
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- Professional Computer
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origins:
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- Japan
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years:
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- '1978'
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cpus:
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- Z80
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params:
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name: M 170
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company: /companies/sord
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company_name: Sord
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specs:
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- label: NAME
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value: M 170
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- label: MANUFACTURER
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value: Sord
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- label: TYPE
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value: Professional Computer
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- label: ORIGIN
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value: Japan
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- label: YEAR
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value: May 1978
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- label: END OF PRODUCTION
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value: Unknown
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- label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE
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value: ROM monitor
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- label: KEYBOARD
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value: Full-stroke keyboard. 56 keys + 18 function and numeric keypad
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- label: CPU
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value: Z80
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- label: SPEED
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value: 2 MHz (a few cranked it up to 4)
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- label: RAM
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value: 16 KB or 32 KB (Model B)
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- label: ROM
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value: 4 KB (Monitor program)
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- label: TEXT MODES
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value: 64 chars. x 24 lines.
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- label: GRAPHIC MODES
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value: 'ACE version: 320 x 256 monochrome or 160 x 256'
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- label: COLORS
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value: 8 colours
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- label: SOUND
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value: Two octaves tone generator
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- label: SIZE / WEIGHT
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value: unknown
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- label: I/O PORTS
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value: S-100 bus, Parallel I/O, Serial (300 to 9600 baud), A/D converter, 2 x tape recorder, color or B/W monitor
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- label: OS
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value: ACEDOS
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- label: POWER SUPPLY
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value: External power supply unit 5V/4A, 12V/0.5A (or built in the ACE extension)
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- label: PERIPHERALS
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value: 2 x tape recorders - 1 to 3 x 5''1/4 disk-drives
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- label: PRICE
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value: 'Basic version: 1500'
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tabs:
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- photos
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- adverts
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photos:
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- title: M110 BLOC DIAGRAM
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subtitle: ''
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text: |-
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Taken from the Sord leaflet
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Thanks to **Tim Mackay**
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image: null
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adverts:
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- title: FRENCH AD (JAN. 1980)
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: null
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- title: M-170 ADVERT
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subtitle: ''
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text: Thanks to **Tim Mackay**
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image: null
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comments:
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- author: EPROM 9 (England)
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date: Monday 8th August 2011
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text: 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
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- author: Tim Mackay (Australia)
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date: Saturday 25th October 2003
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text: |-
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Where is the landfill?
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Such is the lot of 99% of computers ever made.
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Even the awesome ones.
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- author: Mark P (bangor, uk)
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date: Friday 5th April 2002
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text: 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
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oc_id: 469
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source:
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url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230608210900/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=469
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date: '2023-06-08'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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<table> <tr> <td></td> <td>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.</td> <td></td> </tr> </table>
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