Sord M5

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The Sord M5 (also sold in the United Kingdom and other countries by Computer Games Limited as the CGL M5), was a Japanese home computer launched by Sord Computer Corporation in 1982. It had keys similar to the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, but with the bottom right corner chopped off.

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[edit] Technical Specifications

[edit] Internal hardware

  • Video Hardware
    • 24x40 text (8x6 characters), 224 user defined characters
    • 256x192 graphics, 16 colours
    • 32 hardware sprites (up to 16x16 pixels)
  • Sound Hardware
    • 3 sound channels
    • 1 noise channel
    • 6 octaves, 15 amplitude levels
  • RAM:
    • 20 KB RAM (of which 16KB is screen memory)
  • ROM:
    • 8 KB expandable to 16KB

[edit] I/O ports and power supply

  • I/O ports:
    • TV out
    • Video out (phono socket)
    • Sound out (phono socket)
    • Centronics 16-pin interface
    • 8-pin DIN cassette connector
  • Power supply: external

[edit] Language cartridge options

  • BASIC-I
    • Integer arithmetic only (16 bit signed)
  • BASIC-G
    • Graphics and sound functions
  • BASIC-F
    • Floating point arithmetic
  • FALC
    • applications package

[edit] Retail price

  • UK Retail prices, December 1983 [1]
    • Sord M5 plus BASIC-I : £190
    • BASIC-G : £35
    • BASIC-F : £35
    • FALC : £35

[edit] External links

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Computer & Video Games magazine, December 1983