[Coco] Fujistu FM-7

[Zippster]

I believe you are thinking of the Fujitsu FM77 AV, which would be the last
machines of the FM7 line.  It had some fairly advanced video hardware for the time.

The Fujitsu series of 6809 based machines begins with the FM-8, followed by the
FM-7, then FM-77, and finally the FM-77 AV.

All dual-6809’s.  One as the CPU, and another running the video subsystem.

- Ed


> On Aug 6, 2018, at 11:39 AM, coco at jechar.ca wrote:
> 
> Is that the Dual 6309 machine used for film processing in the early-mid 90's ?
> 
> On 2018-08-06 12:28, tim lindner wrote:
>> At the VCFWest this weekend I got to use an FM-7 for the first time.
>> I got a chance to play with BASIC for a bit, here are my notes:
>> 1. The print statement does automatic word wrap. Crazy.
>> 2. The RND function seems to only return numbers from zero to one. It
>> even accepted a parameter that seemed to be ignored. Same random
>> sequence on every run of a program. I could not figure out how to set
>> the seed.
>> 3. The EDIT command clears the screen and prints the BASIC line on
>> top. You use the arrow keys to move the cursor, and there are INSERT
>> and OVERWRITE keys on the keyboard to set the mode.
>> 4. The TIMER variable returned two number like this: "7636 0". The
>> first number kept incrementing, but the second stayed at zero. I could
>> not figure how to set a TIMER value. Both numbers and strings gave
>> "?Type Mismatch" errors.
>> 5. Oh yeah, and also long error names.
>> --
>> --
>> tim lindner
>> "Proper User Policy apparently means Simon Says."
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