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title	categories	types	origins	years	cpus	params
Casio FP 1000 / FP 1100	Computers	Professional Computer	Japan	1983	Zilog Z80 A	name image company company_name specs tabs photos adverts hardware connectors comments oc_id source FP 1000 / FP 1100 /media/museum/photos/casio_fp1000_1.jpg /companies/casio Casio label value NAME FP 1000 / FP 1100 label value MANUFACTURER Casio label value TYPE Professional Computer label value ORIGIN Japan label value YEAR 1983 label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE C82 BASIC label value KEYBOARD QWERTY full-stroke keyboard with separated numeric keypad label value CPU Zilog Z80 A label value SPEED 3.9936 MHz label value CO-PROCESSOR PD7801G (1.9968 MHz) label value RAM 64 KB label value VRAM FP-1000 : 16 KB\ FP-1100 : 48 KB label value ROM 32 KB label value TEXT MODES 80 x 25 label value GRAPHIC MODES 320 x 200 / 640 x 200 / 640 x 400 label value COLORS FP-1000 : Monochrome (black & green)\ FP-1100 : 8 label value SOUND Unknown label value SIZE / WEIGHT Unknown label value I/O PORTS Parallel/Centronics, Tape, Monitor, Expansion Slots (2) label value OS CP/M label value POWER SUPPLY Built-in Power Supply Unit label value PERIPHERALS Double 5''1/4 disk-drives or optional dual 8'' 1.2 MB FD unit (could emulate IBM 3741 format) label value PRICE FP 1000 : 7300 FF (France, dec.83) photos adverts hardware connectors title subtitle text image MAIN UNIT CLOSE-UP /media/museum/photos/casio_fp1000_unitcloseup_1.jpg title subtitle text image FP-1100 /media/museum/photos/casio_fp1100_1.jpg title subtitle text image FRENCH AD (DEC.1983) "Evolutiv system : Casio's answer" /media/museum/pubs/casio_fp1000_pub-popcornmicro.jpg title subtitle text image JAPANESE AD Thanks to Jun Suzuki [web site](http://member.nifty.ne.jp/tarucus/museum/cool/cool.htm) /media/museum/pubs/casio_fp1000_pub_1.jpg title subtitle text image ADVERT Thanks to Rui Santos for this picture /media/museum/pubs/casio_fp1000_pub_0.jpg title subtitle text image DOUBLE DISK DRIVE /media/museum/hardware/casio_fp1020fd_1.jpg title subtitle text image ANOTHER PICTURE /media/museum/hardware/casio_fp1000_fdunit_1.jpg title subtitle text image COLOR-CONNECTOR RGB TTL 8 Pin DIN **(1)** +12V\ **(2)** GND\ **(3)** Free\ **(4)** Hsync\ **(5)** Vsync\ **(6)** Red\ **(7)** Green\ **(8)** Blue H,VSync: neg. TTL\ R,G,B: pos. TTL Thanks to **Guido Zeiger** /media/museum/connectors/casio_fp1000_din8_s1.jpg title subtitle text image MONOCHROME CONNECTOR 5-pin DIN **(1)** +12V\ **(2)** NC\ **(3)** Video - 75 Ohm, 1Vp-p\ **(4)** GND\ **(5)** Light pen Thanks to **Guido Zeiger** /media/museum/connectors/casio_fp1000_din5_s1.jpg author date text Bernard Van Haecke (USA) Sunday 18th February 2018 I only had the dual 5 1/4 floppy drive unit. I connected it to my Sinclair ZX Spectrum with some floppy interface bought in the UK. The drives made a funny noise when starting up. Also had a slightly newer Casio keyboard model and hacked the PCB traces to connect it to the Spectrum mainboard. I wish I could play with these again. author date text VITAS Thursday 30th May 2013 I still have a FP1100. I saved it in 96 when my school was throwing them out. Sometimes i play with it when i want some retro feeling :) author date text Joscelyn Flores (France) Friday 4th January 2013 Now that Youtube exists, I found it funny to upload a couple of Casio demos and games running on my FP-1100. You can find them on my Youtube channel : http://www.youtube.com/user/monolith7777777/videos author date text Marco G (Portugal) Saturday 21st April 2012 This was the first PC I laid my hands on ! With a FP-1000, I learned BASIC and Pascal and got my first programmer diploma at the age of 12. author date text Hamed Abulfatih (Bahrain) Thursday 11th August 2011 this brings back lots of good memories! it was the first PC I ever used and I was 7 years old :) made me love IT. I remember running lotus 123, paratrooper and microsoft flight sim! author date text EPROM 9 (England) Friday 10th June 2011 One thing that is not noted here is the Casio FP 1100 computer could also support Dual CPU. I don''t know if it was standard for that model. It was at least an option. author date text Juergen Leibner (Bielefeld, Germany) Sunday 13rd August 2006 I owned a FP-1100 with several extensions from 1986 until 2006. Then it was recycled :-(\ But the compolete Systemsoftware and documentation is still available. Feel free to mail me for information about. author date text Joscelyn Flores (Paris, France) Monday 23rd August 2004 I still have an FP-1100 with dual floppy drive in perfect working condition. I was wondering if there was any known way to read back FP-1020FD floppies on a PC ? I have lots of software to share. Also, it would be nice to gather homemade software made by others. Since there is almost no information on this computer (also on FP-200 and 6000 by the way), I am projecting to create a website dedicated to these computers. I have all the user AND service manuals - I only must find the time to scan them :) author date text Rui M. Dos santos (Luanda-Angola-Africa) Monday 3rd February 2003 I sold several FP1000/1100 Casio´s in Angola. I developed for them a number of business aplications made in COBOL running under CP/M.. These machines were the more reliable I ever sold, owned and used in my life. Many years of intense work in harsh enviroments and NONE of the around 50 machienes I sold ever broke down...AND I can tell you that they REALLY worked hard.... AT the time the configuration I used used to have two 8 inch high density FDD....GREAT MACHINE ..... 101 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230605035633/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=101 2023-06-05

The Casio FP-1000 and FP-1100 were essentially the same machine, except that the 1100 had colour capabilities, 48 KB VRAM and enhanced graphic mode (640 x 400).

The FP-1100 came with either a monochrome (green) monitor which would display colour as shades, or the colour monitor. The cable feeding the video to the monitor was a simple 2 core unsheilded RCA cable. The mono minitor had a switch at the back so that one could swap foreground and background (green on black or black on green)

Both the FP-1000 and FP-1100 had a built in OS called C82 BASIC. To run CP/M, you had to insert your systems diskette and reboot the computer, or if the program diskette had it's own boot strap, you could issue a "mount [1,2]" command where the number [1/2] indicated the diskette drive you wanted to use.

You could run multiple console sessions on the FP-1000/1100 toggling between them with the blue function keyboard keys that can be seen on the image. Some programs (eg SuperCalc) ussurped these keys and you were stuck in the console session until you stopped the program.

Thanks to Zieg Nielsen for the info.