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| MANUFACTURER |
Canon |
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Portable |
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| BUILT IN LANGUAGE |
Microsoft Basic |
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| KEYBOARD |
QWERTY / AZERTY, 60 chicklet keys, 5 function keys, arrow keys and a sort of numeric keypad (mapped on the letters) |
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| CPU |
National Semiconductor NSC 800 (CMOS technology, Z80 compatible) |
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| RAM |
8 KB (6748 bytes free for Basic) |
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| TEXT MODES |
4 x 20 |
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| GRAPHIC MODES |
120 x 32 |
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| COLORS |
monochrome LCD display |
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| SOUND |
Yes, beeper |
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| SIZE / WEIGHT |
20 x 13 x 2,6 cm / 480 gr |
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| I/O PORTS |
Parallel port, Expansion port,Tape recorder, Serial port, Cart slots, card slot |
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| BUILT IN MEDIA |
RAM-cards |
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| POWER SUPPLY |
External PSU (4.5v - 450 mA) or 4 battery cells |
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| PRICE |
610 (France, september 83)\
457 (France, november 83)\
335 (France, march 84) |
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| JAPANESE X-07 |
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| ENGLISH X-07 |
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| FRENCH MODEL |
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| SUIT CASE |
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The Canon X-07 and its small plotter in its suit case... |
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| PARIS-DAKAR |
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This is a small french advert boasting the qualities of the Canon X-07, since it survived the Paris-Dakar big race... |
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| BOX (TOP) |
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| FRENCH ADVERT |
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| FRENCH ADVERT #2 |
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Dated 1985
"I pianote, it takes note" |
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| FRENCH ADVERT #3 |
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| FRENCH ADVERT #4 |
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| JAPANESE ADVERT |
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| AN OVERVIEW |
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| CONNECTIVITY SCHEME |
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| X-710 |
Color graphic plotter |
It is in fact a small plotter like the famous MCP-40 (at least in France) of the Oric for example. To print it uses 4 small ink pens: a red, a black, a blue and a green. This technology was found in many cheap printers of that time...
**Caracteristics**\
Paper : Plain Paper for 114 mm broad printers.\
Impression : 16 formats (smallest characters: 80 car/line)\
Graphics : X-Y Plotter\
Interface : Centronics specifications\
Accumulators : Ni-Cd\
Print speed : 10 caracters/sec (smallest size)\
Dimensions : 200 x 35,5 x 120 mm\
Weight : 570g |
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| X-711 |
Thermic printer |
This is a thermic printer which is much more difficult to find than the small X-710 plotter, but which was more practical for printing listings. And it was twice faster !
**Caracteristics**\
Paper : Special heat-sensitive paper (57mm wide)\
Impression : 10 characters/line (large size)\
20 characters/line (standard format)\
System : Thermic printer\
Interface : Centronics Specifications\
Accumulators : Ni-Cd\
Print speed : 20 characters/sec\
Dimensions : 194,5 x 30 x 87,5 mm\
Weight : 420g |
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| X-720 |
Canon Video Interface |
Canon also produced a very interesting video interface but also very expensive. Indeed it cost more than 2000 fr! But thanks to it, it was possible to use the Canon X-07 with a television or a monitor, and to have a new text mode of 40 X 24 and a new graphic mode of 256 x 192 with 6 colors ! Fantastic ! |
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| X-721 |
Optical transmitter |
Ha! The optical transmitter ! This is the star of the canon X-07 peripherals. A crazy extension which came out of the delirious brains of those sympathetic small Japanese people.
In fact the optical transmitter makes it possible to connect the Canon X-07 to another computer (Canon X-07, Canon V-20...) or any other machine via the X-722 RS-232C converter, without any wire and up to 5 meters ! All the communications are made through infra-red signals, excellent !
Moreover the thing looks like a large futuristic joystick... The signals sent by the X-721 are "serial asynchronous signals" compliant. For the software, the signals are handled just as it was an access to the serial port. The X-721 is connected to the X-07 as indicated on the picture above. |
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| X-721 |
A small sketch |
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| X-721 |
How to connect it to the Canon X-07 |
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| X-721 |
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On this picture, we can see the two transmitters distant from each other. |
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| X-721 AND X-722 |
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Here, you can see the transmitter and the X-722 converter connected together. |
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| X-722 |
RS232c Converter |
This extension converts the output of the X-721 optical transmitter or the serial port into RS-232c signals. |
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| X-722 |
Another picture |
Here, you can see the X-722 convertings signals coming from the X-721 optical transmitter and sending them to a machine through a RS-232c plug.. |
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| KIT'APPEL |
from DDI |
This little kit was used to compose a phone number from the Canon X-07 and to caculate the price of the communication, still by the Canon X-07. A software with a phone book manager was delivered on tape with the kit. (France 84, 350 fr). |
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| CMOS MEMORY BOARD |
To upgrade the memory |
In an old magazine I found this extension manufactured by Info-Systèmes. It's a CMOS memory board upgrading the X-07 memory sizz to 40 kb of RAM, with a mercury cell allowing to keep data and programs up to ten years. So if you own one like this, your datas must be lost now... Price ? 2400fr ! (February 85)
In addition, Info-systèmes sold at the same time (at the beginning of 85) an Eprom memory board 32k ROM making it possible to definitively back up BASIC or language machine programs. The access times were in between 250 and 450 nanoseconds which was not fantastic even at that time, since it was slower than the hard disks and disk drives. And it cost 1450fr!
The two boards could be connected through the X-07 extension port via a 40 pins flat cable. |
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| CAN'ELL VIDEO INTERFACE |
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Can'ell is a software package with a cable offering a video interface for the X-07 sold at that time by Feeling Soft. With this package you could go from the basic 4 x 20 mode to a cool 19 x 40 text mode through a french Minitel screen (videotext terminal)!
The package is made of 3 parts. The first one is a serial DIN cable to connect the computer to the Minitel. Connections are made on the serial port of the Canon et on the "péri-informatique" plug of the Minitel. Then, you have a tape with the emulation software on it and a documentation.
With this extension you thus have a video extension with an integrated modem for cheap since the Minitel is free! The display rate is also faster by approximately 40 percent compared to the original LCD display.
The cable price was 250fr and 180fr for the software, or 380fr for the whole package (back in 85)
If this extension really existed, it seemed to be a good and ingenious alternative to the Canon video interface which was worth 2000fr and more ! |
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| RAM EXPANSION |
Home made ? |
Personally, I own a "home-made" memory extension which seems to add 36k of RAM. It consists of 9 x 4k chip memories. It could in fact be the card described elsewhere on this page (CMOS memory board) but without its plastic case, since it seems to be exactly of the same size... |
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| SPORT TESTER PE-3000 |
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This splendid unit includes a cardio-frequencymeter which records your heartbeats and that you wear on a belt around your body. The signals are sent by a small transmitter to a computer-watch which you carry around your wrist (that sounds normal for a watch...), and which stores these signals in its 2k memory. At any time, one can re-examine the evolution of the cardiac effort during the training. The watch can also transfer the data to the Canon X-07. Thus, it's possible to print the data on the small plotter, and to compare them with the oxygen consommation compatible with the provided effort.
This cute little unit was manufactured in Finland by Polar Electronic. The watch was sold in France for only 2250 Fr and the whole watch-computer-interface-printer unit for 17 760 francs in 1985! |
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| PARALLEL CONNECTOR |
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| SERIAL CONNECTOR |
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**1** - LT x D - **->** - OPR data transmission\
**2** - FG - Ground shield\
**3** - N.C.\
**4** - T x D - **->** - DATA transmitted\
**5** - R x D - **<-** - DATA received\
**6** - CTS - **<-** - Reception from other unit\
**7** - RTS - **->** - X-07 reception\
**8** - SG - Ground signal\
**9** - VBB - **->** - Instable power |
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| EXPANSION CONNECTOR |
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| TAPE-RECORDER CABLE |
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| PRINTER CABLE |
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| CENTRONICS / PARALLEL CABLE |
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| TAPE-RECORDER CONNECTOR |
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**1** - REM+ - wire to REMOTE plug\
**2** - GND - Ground signal\
**3** - REM- - Wire to REMOTE plug\
**4** - MON - connected to the READ plug (EAR)\
**5** - MIC - connected to the RECORD plug |
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| SERIAL CABLE |
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| BOOT SCREEN |
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| TITLE SCREEN |
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| IN-GAME SCREENSHOT |
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| SPREADSHEET PROGRAM |
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| balvenie (France) |
Sunday 14th April 2013 |
Hello Giovanni.\
I have one working with printer and memory card 4k.\
Are you still interested ?
balvenie@yopmail.com |
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| giovanni (Italia(PALERMO)) |
Friday 13rd April 2012 |
hello i am giovanni i search a canon-X07 can you help me ??, i want to buy one, i read in old-computer thath Jessica(AUS) have two of this ,if she want can write to my email and say me something ,how much and so one tahnk you for read me |
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| giovanni (Italia(PALERMO)) |
Friday 13rd April 2012 |
i wanted a canon -X07 i read that Jessica (AUS) have two of this i want to buy one ,can you help me??thank you |
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| canon |
Tuesday 27th September 2011 |
Hallo, where to get memory card and expansion video box ? |
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| Jessica (AUS) |
Tuesday 19th October 2010 |
I have two X-07 canon handheld in original packaging with manuals if anyone''s interested |
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| Touby (Schweiz) |
Sunday 17th October 2004 |
i'm looking informatins about the parallel and serial i/o. for high / low level programming.
thanks |
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| thierry (France) |
Saturday 24th January 2004 |
Je recherche quelques logiciels et listings pour un canon x-07, et un schema de son electronique car la cassette s'arrete trop tot avec la fiche remote (tempo du relais) svp !\
Merci d'avance ! |
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| JJ (NL) |
Wednesday 31st December 2003 |
Who can mail me a scan of the Canon X-07 manual?\
Or maybe you have a X-07 manual and want to send it to me?\
All other X-07 parts such as memory cards, printer et cetera wanted! |
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