The Power of Vintage
FM Towns
"The Japanese Multimedia PC"
Manufactured by Fujitsu from early 1989 to 1997, FM Towns is a Japanese multimedia computer based on x86 Intel CPUs and a CD-ROM drive. The computer offered a 24-bit color palette, hardware graphics, and sound capabilities similar to an arcade system
- About 500,000 FM Towns were ever sold
- The initial price was 338,000 yen (something like $3,000 in today’s money)
About
About BinaryValue.com -A Tribute to Innovative Computers & their Engineers -
This website is a tribute to all vintage computers and their engineers who worked day and night to build these amazing machines.
Special thanks go to:
- Jay Glenn Miner (the Amiga's father and engineer on the Atari 2600 & Atari 8-bit family)
- Dave Haynie (chief engineer at Commodore International)
- Clive Sinclair (inventor of the ZX Spectrum)
- Steve Bosniak (the brains behind Apple computers)
- Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web)
- Linus Torvalds (main developer of the Linux kernel)
Alto
Xerox Alto.. the Grandpa of Modern Computing
Designed in 1972 and released in March 1973, Xerox Alto is a revolutionary hardware built by Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center). The innovations brought by Alto included the first-ever Graphical User Interface, LAN, optical mouse, and high-res bitmapped display. The Alto was also the first computer to use a laser printer, another invention by Xerox. The Xerox Alto wasn’t a commercial computer, it was a research prototype used by universities and the Xerox PARC.
- 120 Alto I and 2,000 Alto II were ever produced (universities used 500 machines)
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