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title: Sony Hit-Bit 75
categories:
- Computers
params:
name: Hit-Bit 75
image: /media/museum/photos/sony_hb75p_1.jpg
company: /companies/sony
company_name: Sony
tabs:
- photos
- adverts
- hardware
- software
- emulators
- links
- videos
forum_thread: 432
photos:
- title: HIT-BIT 75P
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/photos/sony_hitbit-75p_3.jpg
- title: HIT-BIT 75P
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/photos/sony_hb75p_2.jpg
- title: HIT-BIT 75F
subtitle: ''
text: The French model
image: /media/museum/photos/sony_hb75f.jpg
- 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: /media/museum/photos/sony_hb75p_back.jpg
- 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: /media/museum/photos/sony_hb75p_rear_2.jpg
adverts:
- title: JAPANESE ADVERT.
subtitle: ''
text: She seems so happy to have an Hit-Bit...
image: /media/museum/pubs/sony_hb-75_pub.jpg
- title: FRENCH ADVERT (JUNE 1985)
subtitle: ''
text: |-
"It's new. It's the Hit-Bit"
"The computer according to Sony"
image: /media/museum/pubs/sony_hitbit-75_pub_c-nouveau.jpg
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: /media/museum/hardware/sony_hb75f_perifs.jpg
- title: SONY 3'' 1/2DISK-DRIVE
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/sony_hb75_diskdrive.jpg
- title: SONY INFRA-RED JOYSTICK
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/sony_hb75_ir_joystick.jpg
- title: SONY JOYSTICK
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/sony_hb75_joystick.jpg
- title: SONY PRINTER
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/sony_hb75_printer1.jpg
- title: SONY PRINTER
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/sony_hb75_printer2.jpg
- title: SONY PRINTER
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/sony_hb75_printer3.jpg
- title: SONY TAPE-RECORDER
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/sony_hb75_taperecorder.jpg
- title: SONY TRACK-BALL
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/sony_hb75_trackball.jpg
- 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: /media/museum/software/sony_hb75p_menu_1.jpg
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'
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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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