SVI-728

The Spectra Video SVI -728 was the first MSX home computer of the former U.S. computer manufacturer Spectravideo. He was brought to market in 1984. The SVI -728 was the successor of the SV -328, but was still not a full MSX computer. The computer was very professional and had an ergonomic keyboard with a separate numeric keypad remote and was able to on the one hand be used as a home computer as well as an office computer. The SVI -728 was CP / M -compatible and so could CP / M programs are used on this computer.

Description

The case was ivory and had gray rounded for the fingertip buttons. The cartridge port was located at the center front. The computer was (expandable to 265 kilobytes ) equipped with a Z80A processor running at 3.56 MHz, 32 KB ROM, 64 KB of RAM and a video RAM of 16 KB. The graphics chip was a Texas Instruments TMS9929 for TMS9918A for NTSC or PAL or SECAM ( YPbPr). As interfaces he had a tape recorder port, two joystick ports, a Centronics printer port, one RGB output for connecting a monitor and an antenna output for connecting to a TV.

Accessories

From Spectravideo some was produced accessories. Because of the CP / M compatibility 5-1/4-Zoll-Floppys ( SVI -707 ) were offered. For the extension of the RAM, there was a 64- kbyte plug-in module ( SVI -747 ). For the free memory came to a total of 144 kByte and was so perfectly sized for word processing and spreadsheet programs. Likewise modems were produced ( SVI -737 ), joysticks ( SVI - 101) graphics tablets ( SVI -105 ), cassette recorder ( SVI -767 ), plug-in modules for a serial interface ( SVI -757 ) as well as monitors.