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Fujitsu FM R 70	Computers	Professional Computer	Japan	1988	Intel 80386DX	name image company company_name specs comments oc_id source FM R 70 /media/museum/photos/fujitsu_fmr70_1.jpg /companies/fujitsu Fujitsu label value NAME FM R 70 label value MANUFACTURER Fujitsu label value TYPE Professional Computer label value ORIGIN Japan label value YEAR 1988 label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE None label value KEYBOARD JIS (Japanese Industrial Standard) keyboard (117 key)\ or "OYAYUBI-shift" Keyboard\ or Extended Emulator Keyboard (for terminal emulation) label value CPU Intel 80386DX label value SPEED 16 MHz (succeeding model had an i386/25MHz) label value CO-PROCESSOR Cirrus Logic CL-GD video subsystem, Math coprocessor label value RAM 584 KB + 2 MB extended RAM up to 10 MB label value VRAM VRAM; Graphic VRAM 512KB + Text VRAM 16KB label value ROM 16KB label value TEXT MODES 80 columns x 25 lines (2byte-KANA 40x25) 24dot KANA/KANJI-character label value GRAPHIC MODES 1120 x 750 dots label value COLORS 16 colours from a 4096 color palette label value SOUND Built-in PC speaker label value SIZE / WEIGHT 47 (W) x 38.5 (D) x 12.5 (H) cm / 18 kg label value I/O PORTS 3 expansion slots, 2 memory slot, Serial RS-232C, Parallel Centronics, FDD-I/F, SCSI-I/F label value BUILT IN MEDIA 2 x 5.25'' floppy drives or 1 x 3.5''+ 1 x 5.25''. 3.5'' 40 MB HDD (probably SCSI) label value OS MS-DOS label value POWER SUPPLY Built-in PSU label value PERIPHERALS Thomas Conrad ethernet adapter. label value PRICE From $2998 to $3995 according to versions author date text Conrad Russo (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) Monday 26th March 2012 The FMR-50, the predecessor to this machine, was actually the basis for the famous and fabled FM-TOWNS system. It is even possible to use FMR-50 expansion cards with the FM-TOWNS, provided you used a simple passive adapter. The ethernet card in my FM-TOWNS II UR is an FMR-50 ethernet card connected to an adapter. As far as I know, some FMR-50 will run unmodified on the FM-TOWNS as well. 328 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230208073702/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=328 2023-02-08

FM R 70 wasn't just an expensive IBM Compatible, but a very sophisticated machine at its time featuring some newly added features common to most modern computers today. In example:
• It came stock with 584 KB Base Memory, and 2MB of Extended RAM Memory (in newly developed SIMMS).
• It featured a newly developed Cirrus Logic CL-GD video subsystem, adapted by many proprietary manufacturers of the late 1980's early 1990's.
• It featured an i386-DX processor, as well as an optional mathematics coprocessor.
• It ran at about 16Mhz and ran MS-DOS and any variations of PC Compatible software, as well as Miscrosoft Windows.
• It used the AT style Keyboard, 2 5" Floppy's, or one 3.25 Floppy and one 5" floppy, VGA/VESA technology and ISA bus.
• It also featured a Thomas Conrad ethernet adapter.

Preceding i286 processor models was called FM-R60 (high-resolution model) and FM-R50 (standard 640x400 dot resolution model).

R60 and R50 had a sub-model with HDD (FM-R60HD /FM-R50HD) and without HDD(FM-R60FD/FM-R50HD).

Mainly, these machines were used as a terminal of Fujitsu M-series(M-3xx/7xx) mainframe, with a F6650 connection card (interface card) and a F6680 emulator software.

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