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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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.
Monday 26th March 2012
Conrad Russo (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
NAME
FM R 70
MANUFACTURER
Fujitsu
TYPE
Professional Computer
ORIGIN
Japan
YEAR
1988
BUILT IN LANGUAGE
None
KEYBOARD
JIS (Japanese Industrial Standard) keyboard (117 key) or "OYAYUBI-shift" Keyboard or Extended Emulator Keyboard (for terminal emulation)
CPU
Intel 80386DX
SPEED
16 MHz (succeeding model had an i386/25MHz)
CO-PROCESSOR
Cirrus Logic CL-GD video subsystem, Math coprocessor
RAM
584 KB + 2 MB extended RAM up to 10 MB
VRAM
VRAM; Graphic VRAM 512KB + Text VRAM 16KB
ROM
16KB
TEXT MODES
80 columns x 25 lines (2byte-KANA 40x25) 24dot KANA/KANJI-character
