Visual 50

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Visual 50 Computer, produced on Nov. 25 1983
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Visual 50 Computer, produced on Nov. 25 1983

The Visual 50 is a computer created by the Visual Company, located in Tewksbury, MD 01876. Visual's slogan, "See for yourself". The computer consists of a monitor which is the main computer and a keyboard. There are no internal drives, and the only ports on the computer are a modem port, keyboard port, and an aux. port. The computer uses on a SGS (now STMicroelectronics) Z8400AB1 CPU, based on the Zilog Z80A CPU. This CPU has an 8 bit data bus and a 16 bit address bus, and runs at 4MHz. The keyboard is a Keytronic A65-0248, attached by a 4 wire telephone cord. The keyboard uses an Intel P8048H MCU, a common MCU for keyboards.