[Coco] Fujistu FM-7

[Michael Brant]

How hard would a clone be?

On Mon, Aug 6, 2018, 12:38 PM Zippster <zippster278 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I recently acquired two FM-7’s.  Very interesting 6809 based machines.
>
> I’m in the process of developing an SD card based floppy drive emulator
> (at the board layout stage now) which should make them a lot easier to work
> with.
>
> Fascinating computers.  :)
>
> - Ed
>
>
>
> > On Aug 6, 2018, at 11:28 AM, tim lindner <tlindner at macmess.org> 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.
> >
> >
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> >
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