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Fujitsu FM 77 AV EX	Computers	Professional Computer	Japan	1986	MBL68B09E	name image company company_name specs comments oc_id source FM 77 AV EX /media/museum/photos/fujitsu_avex_1.jpg /companies/fujitsu Fujitsu label value NAME FM 77 AV EX label value MANUFACTURER Fujitsu label value TYPE Professional Computer label value ORIGIN Japan label value YEAR 1986 label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE Unknown label value KEYBOARD Full stroke keyboard with numeric keypad label value CPU MBL68B09E (8 bits) label value SPEED 2 MHz label value CO-PROCESSOR Unknown label value RAM 192 KB (up to 448 KB) label value VRAM 192 KB label value ROM Unknown label value TEXT MODES 40x20, 80x50 label value GRAPHIC MODES 320x200, 640x200, 640x400 label value COLORS 4096 label value SOUND 3 FM voices + 3 PSG voices, 8 octaves label value SIZE / WEIGHT 380x357x110 mm label value I/O PORTS RS-232c, RGB video output, Audio, Video composite, extension bus, MIDI, SCSI label value BUILT IN MEDIA 2 x 3.5'' disk drives (640 KB) label value OS Unknown label value POWER SUPPLY Built-in power supply unit label value PERIPHERALS printers, modem label value PRICE Unknown author date text Conrad Russo (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) Monday 12th March 2012 The major difference between the EX and SX is that the SX lacks the connector to connect a tape player to load software from cassette. The SX motherboard has the solder points for the connector, the relay, the caps and resistor, and the cassette asic, but they are unpopulated. You can populate them yourself, but the hardest part is finding the ASIC, it''s part number is MB43413. I managed to get 5 of them used from a supplier in China. I am going to try and have them reverse engineered and rebuilt in VHDL or Verilog so that anyone with an SX can add tape support. author date text Keith Greer (County Derry, United Kingdom) Sunday 18th December 2005 Ah, my First Computer, I have been looking for pictures on the intenet for ages. Great computer, but I think a bit slow compaired to todays machines. 374 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230603001920/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=374 2023-06-03

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Apparently, the only difference between the FM-77 AV40 SX and the FM-77 AV40 EX, is the built-in BASIC language. Can someone confirm this ?

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