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Sony Hit-Bit 75	Computers	name image company company_name tabs photos adverts hardware screenshots emulators links videos comments related oc_id source Hit-Bit 75 /media/museum/photos/sony_hb75p_1.jpg /companies/sony Sony photos adverts hardware software emulators links videos title subtitle text image HIT-BIT 75P /media/museum/photos/sony_hitbit-75p_3.jpg title subtitle text image HIT-BIT 75P /media/museum/photos/sony_hb75p_2.jpg title subtitle text image HIT-BIT 75F The French model /media/museum/photos/sony_hb75f.jpg title subtitle text image REAR VIEW 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. /media/museum/photos/sony_hb75p_back.jpg title subtitle text image REAR #2 From left to right: Centronics interface, RF TV video output, Audio/RGB Video output, Tape interface, SCART female connector and power cord. /media/museum/photos/sony_hb75p_rear_2.jpg title subtitle text image JAPANESE ADVERT. She seems so happy to have an Hit-Bit... /media/museum/pubs/sony_hb-75_pub.jpg title subtitle text image FRENCH ADVERT (JUNE 1985) "It's new. It's the Hit-Bit" "The computer according to Sony" /media/museum/pubs/sony_hitbit-75_pub_c-nouveau.jpg title subtitle text image SOME SONY EXTENSIONS 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. /media/museum/hardware/sony_hb75f_perifs.jpg title subtitle text image SONY 3'' 1/2DISK-DRIVE /media/museum/hardware/sony_hb75_diskdrive.jpg title subtitle text image SONY INFRA-RED JOYSTICK /media/museum/hardware/sony_hb75_ir_joystick.jpg title subtitle text image SONY JOYSTICK /media/museum/hardware/sony_hb75_joystick.jpg title subtitle text image SONY PRINTER /media/museum/hardware/sony_hb75_printer1.jpg title subtitle text image SONY PRINTER /media/museum/hardware/sony_hb75_printer2.jpg title subtitle text image SONY PRINTER /media/museum/hardware/sony_hb75_printer3.jpg title subtitle text image SONY TAPE-RECORDER /media/museum/hardware/sony_hb75_taperecorder.jpg title subtitle text image SONY TRACK-BALL /media/museum/hardware/sony_hb75_trackball.jpg title subtitle text image NATIONAL CF-2131 16 KB RAM expansion /media/museum/hardware/national_cf2131_16k-cart.jpg title subtitle text image CASIO OR-216 - 16 KB RAM EXPANSION Box /media/museum/hardware/casio_or216_16kbramexpansion_box.jpg title subtitle text image PHILIPS RAM EXPANSION RAM expansion and LOGO language cartridges. Thanks to Daniele from Italy /media/museum/hardware/philips_vg8020_cartridges_s1.jpg title subtitle text image MEGA RAM DISK 256 from DDX (Brazil) This is the famous Megaram cartridge made in Brzail, used to play all Konami cracked Megarom games.6401999243 /media/museum/hardware/msx_megaram256-ddx_1.jpg title subtitle text image PANASONIC FS-IFA1 & FW-RSU1W Scanner/Printer interface 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. /media/museum/hardware/msx_fs-ifa1_fw-rsu1w.jpg title subtitle text image SONY HBI-232 RS232c cartridge Used to connect serial printers. /media/museum/hardware/sony_msx_rs232c-cartridge.jpg title subtitle text image YAMAHA MOUSE #1 This mouse was compatible with all MSX systems. It connects to the first Joystick port. Thanks to **www.zonadepruebas.com** /media/museum/hardware/yamaha_mouse_s2.jpg title subtitle text image YAMAHA MOUSE #2 Brand new! Thanks to **www.zonadepruebas.com** /media/museum/hardware/yamaha_mouse_s1.jpg title subtitle text image PHILIPS VW0020 80-col dot-matrix printer 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. /media/museum/hardware/philips_vg8020_printervw0020_s1.jpg title subtitle text image SANYO PHC-DR II Side /media/museum/hardware/sanyo_phc-drii_side_1.jpg title subtitle text image SANYO PHC-DR II Front /media/museum/hardware/sanyo_phc-drii_front_1.jpg title subtitle text image SANYO DR-202 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. /media/museum/hardware/sanyo_phc28_dr202tapedrive_s1.jpg title subtitle text image NATIONAL RQ-8030 tape-recorder /media/museum/hardware/national_tape_rq8030.jpg title subtitle text image BIT-CORDER Cassete recorder dedicated to Hit-Bit MSX systems, though it could be used with any home computers. /media/museum/hardware/sony_hb201_bitcorder_1.jpg title subtitle text image BUILT-IN SOFTWARE Menu screenshot /media/museum/software/sony_hb75p_menu_1.jpg title url platform text fMSX for MS DOS Homepage http://www.komkon.org/~dekogel/fmsx.html MS DOS title url platform text BlueMSX http://www.bluemsx.com/ Windows Excellent free MSX emulator title url platform text BrMSX http://www.lsi.usp.br/~ricardo/brmsx.htm Windows A Bresilian MSX Emulator written in 100% assembler title url platform text CompuJunk's MSX Emulator http://ftp.castel.nl/msx/ Windows A MSX1 and MSX2 Emulator title url platform text RuMSX http://members.eunet.at/lexlechz/msx.html Windows A MSX Emulator for Win95 and Win NT + Direct X title url platform text fMSX for MAC OS Homepage http://www.emulation.net/msx/index.html Apple title url platform text fMSX official Homepage http://www.komkon.org/fms/fMSX Multiplatform 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 url platform text openMSX - The MSX emulator that aims for perfection. http://openmsx.sourceforge.net/ Multiplatform 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. title url text Baboo! http://www.baboo.net/baboo.shtml MSX dedicated Yahoo clone. Essential ! title url text FILE-HUNTER.COM http://www.file-hunter.com/ Excellent! All MSX emulators, sources and utilities! title url text FTP da MSXBr-L/MSX.Org.Br http://www.caetano.eng.br/msxsoft/ Excellent brasilian software archive title url text MOAI TECH http://www.moai-tech.com/ Spanish/English website with interesting content title url text MSX Hardware List http://www.faq.msxnet.org/hardware.html An impressive list of MSX hardware. The Bible !!! title url text MSX Ressource Center http://www.msx.org/ Essential site ! title url text Possi's Konami MSX Page http://dynamo.geol.msu.ru/MSX/ Nice page dedicated to all Konami MSX games (roms, scans, mids, etc.) title url text The MSX Games Box http://www.msxgamesbox.com All about MSX gaming (games, covers.etc.). More Fun, Less Mhz! title url text The MSX Museum BOX http://www.msxmuseumbox.com More than 190 different MSX models in pictures. title url text The ultimate MSX Faq http://www.faq.msxnet.org Here, you can find near all hardware pieces related to MSX. title url text Web Wiz CAPTCHA http://www.webwizcaptcha.com The MSX home computer system title url text Hit-Bit japanese TV commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAYspNJheWA Length: 15 s author date text fireb0y (España) Saturday 10th August 2019 Very good and reliable computer, my first home computer ever. The cursor keys were good, but they fail about time because the switches used by Sony, but nowadays are easy to find replacement. author date text CARLOS (SPAIN) Sunday 18th November 2012 I SELL ONE. SOMEBODY INTERESTED¿ author date text MsxKun Monday 18th June 2012 You can connect a disk drive to *ANY* of the cartridge slots, same as on any MSX, not specifically 2nd slot... author date text ESLES (DSS) Tuesday 17th January 2012 My second one... Love too author date text Niles (Madrid (Spain)) Thursday 22nd September 2005 HB75P Service Manual downloadable at http://members.chello.nl/h.otten/fronthw.htm as many others MSX documents ^ ^ author date text Niles (Madrid (Spain)) Thursday 23rd January 2003 we can find a scanned operating manual of this machine at http://www.msxhans.msx2.com\ ... great !! author date text Niles (Madrid (Spain)) Tuesday 16th July 2002 I see many people remarks his first computer. 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This is a quite popular 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...