[net.micro.6809] Fujitsu FM-77 noted

emjej@uokvax.UUCP (09/24/84)

Noted in Sept. 1984 *Byte*, in the "Byte: Japan" column:

The Fujitsu FM-77: $850 with one microfloppy drive, $980 with two.
Comes with 64K RAM, expandable to 256K. That doesn't count 48K of video
RAM. Various expansion cards:  Z80 (for antiquarians), RS-232, higher
resolution (400*?) graphics, voice input. Two 2MHz 6809s (where have we
heard that before?) Runs OS-9 (level not specified; no more than one
would expect from *Byte*--I'm surprised they mentioned the machine at
all), and comes with Fujitsu's Logo and BASIC.  (Sigh; do these run
under OS-9? No way to tell from the stuff in *Byte*.)

Will we see this in the US? Who knows; perhaps the Japanese have us
pegged as people mainly interested in the moosehead offspring of that
electronic cash register that started it all and the excuses for
operating systems that run on them.

(I wish that Fujitsu would bring this machine, along with the FM-7 and
FM-11, over here, just to give Tandy a surprise.)

I, of course, work for neither Motorola, Fujitsu, nor Microware Systems
Corporation (wish wish), nor Tandy Corporation, and certainly not for
*Byte*.

						James Jones