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title: Fujitsu FM 77 AV
categories:
- Computers
types:
- Home Computer
origins:
- Japan
years:
- '1985'
cpus:
- MBL 68B09E x 2
params:
name: FM 77 AV
image: /media/museum/photos/fujitsu_77av3c_1.jpg
company: /companies/fujitsu
company_name: Fujitsu
specs:
- label: NAME
value: FM 77 AV
- label: MANUFACTURER
value: Fujitsu
- label: TYPE
value: Home Computer
- label: ORIGIN
value: Japan
- label: YEAR
value: '1985'
- label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE
value: F-BASIC V3.0
- label: KEYBOARD
value: Infra red professional keyboard with numeric keypad, 100 keys, JIS standard
- label: CPU
value: MBL 68B09E x 2
- label: SPEED
value: 2 MHz
- label: RAM
value: 128 kb (up to 192 kb)
- label: VRAM
value: 96 kb
- label: ROM
value: 72 kb (in which 32 kb are used to store the F-BASIC)
- label: TEXT MODES
value: |-
40 x 20, 40 x 25, 80 x 20, 80 x 25 (8 colors each)\
Letter matrix : 8 x 8
- label: GRAPHIC MODES
value: |-
640 x 200 (2 colors), 320 x 200 (4096 colors)\
Multipaging possibilities
- label: COLORS
value: '4096'
- label: SOUND
value: 3 FM channels + 3 PSG channels
- label: SIZE / WEIGHT
value: |-
Main unit : 363 (W) x 380 (D) x 101.5 (H) mm\
Keyboard : 410 (W) x 192 (D) x 38 (H) mm
- label: I/O PORTS
value: RGB analog video output, RGB TTL video output, Parallel/Centronics interface, Tape-recorder interface (1600 baud), two joystick ports, 4 expansion ports
- label: BUILT IN MEDIA
value: 3.5'' disk-drive (DD, 320 kb), one for the AV-1, and two for the AV-2 model.
- label: POWER SUPPLY
value: PSU built-in
- label: PRICE
value: |-
FM 77 AV-1 : 128,000 Yen (Japan, 1985)\
FM 77 AV-2 : 158,000 Yen (Japan, 1985)
tabs:
- photos
- hardware
- software
- links
forum_thread: 372
photos:
- title: FM77 AV
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/photos/fujitsu_fm77av_2.jpg
- title: 'ZOOM #1'
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/photos/fujitsu_fm77av_detail_1.jpg
- title: 'ZOOM #2'
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/photos/fujitsu_fm77av_detail_2.jpg
hardware:
- title: MB27621
subtitle: Twin 5.25'' disk drive
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/fujitsu_fm77_mb27621_1.jpg
- title: MB27621
subtitle: Rear
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/fujitsu_fm77_mb27621_rear.jpg
screenshots:
- title: SOME SOFTWARE
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/software/fujitsu_fm77av_soft_1.jpg
links:
- title: Junya Kubota's Museum
url: http://my.reset.jp/~toragiku/kopa/fm77av.htm
text: Junya has a page about the FM-77 AV2. In fact most of our infos come from him !
oc_id: 373
source:
url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230607061423/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=373
date: '2023-06-07'
---
The FM 77 AV was an impressive system in 1985. It's a good example of what was developped in Japan and we never heard of in the rest of the world.
The system has great audio and video features, hence the AV for "Audio and Video". It can display 640 x 200 pixels in two colors, or 320 x 200 in 4096 colors ! There is even a multipage mode where you can define two 460 x 200 screens with 8 colors each, or six 640 x 200 monochrome screens !
There are a lot of graphical symbols already stored in memory (each symbol / letter is composed by 8 x 8 pixels) : 69 alphanumeric symbols, 63 kakatana signs, 63 hiragana signs and 62 graphic symbols. Moreover, the system is capable of displaying 3418 chinese and asiatic characters with a 16 x 16 character matrix (text resolution is thus of 40 x 12).
Last but not least, the FM 77 AV offers superimposition features...\
On the sound side, it offers three FM voices and three more PSG voices. Other cool features include infra-red keyboard and built-in real time clock.
There were two models : the **AV-1** which has one 3.5" disk-drive (double density) built-in and the **AV-2** which is equiped with two of these drives.
Source : [Junya Kubota's museum](http://www3.wind.ne.jp/toragiku/).