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Sord M343	Computers	Professional Computer	Japan	Zilog Z80 - Intel 8088	name image company company_name specs comments oc_id source M343 /media/museum/photos/sord_m23-mk10_1.jpg /companies/sord Sord label value NAME M343 label value MANUFACTURER Sord label value TYPE Professional Computer label value ORIGIN Japan label value YEAR Unknown label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE Unknown label value KEYBOARD Full-stroke keyboard with numeric and editing keypads, function keys, arrow keys label value CPU Zilog Z80 - Intel 8088 label value SPEED Unknown label value CO-PROCESSOR Intel 8087 (numeric processor) label value RAM 256 KB (up to 768 KB) label value VRAM Unknown label value ROM Unknown label value TEXT MODES 80 x 24 label value GRAPHIC MODES 1024 x 1024 label value COLORS Unknown (monochrome monitor) label value SOUND Unknown label value SIZE / WEIGHT Unknown (heavy) label value I/O PORTS Unknown label value BUILT IN MEDIA Two 8'' disk-drives label value OS RDOS, RMDOS, MSDOS, CP/M 86 and Pascal USCD label value POWER SUPPLY Built-in PSU label value PRICE Unknown author date text Chee-Meng Soh (Malaysia) Wednesday 4th January 2006 I've seen one of these in use at a Meteorological Center in Malaysia (in the late 80's). The drives were 8" floppy drives. 220 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20221205120747/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=220 2022-12-05

First information from Jules Allen:
I worked for the British Sord importer in the early 80's and we had a couple of these beasts.
They were the first high-end professional grade computer I had seen, they were aimed at financial applications.

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