The Hotbit HB-8000 is an
MSX home computer developed and sold by the Brazilian subsidiary of
Sharp Corporation
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through its EPCOM home computer division in mid-1980s. The MSX machines were very popular in Brazil at the time, and they virtually killed all the other competing 8 bit
microcomputer
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s in the Brazilian market.
Hotbit
at old-computers.com
Versions 1-1.2
The Hotbit had three versions: 1.0 and 1.1 with gray and white case and 1.2, with a black case and a ROM
Rom, or ROM may refer to:
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slightly modified to solve an ASCII table
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compatibility issue with the other popular Brazilian MSX, the Gradiente Expert
The Expert, made by Gradiente Eletrônica (to date best known as a game console and Hi-Fi equipment company) was the second and last MSX home computer launched in the Brazilian market, in the mid-1980s.
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Technical specifications
Peripherals
* HB-100: joystick
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* HB-2400: tape recorder
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* HB-3000 or HB-3001: external modem
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* HB-3600: Dual disk drive controller and power supply. Sold in a bundle with one HB-6000 drive
* HB-4000: 80 columns card with the V9938
The Yamaha V9938 is a video display processor (VDP) used on the MSX2 home computer, as well as on the Geneve 9640 enhanced TI-99/4A clone and the Tatung Einstein 256. It was also used in a few MSX, MSX1 computers, in a configuration with 16kB VRA ...
VDP inside
* HB-4100: 64KB RAM expansion
* HB-6000: 5" disk drive
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(''slim height''), 360 KB
Notes
External links
Sharp Hotbit
MSX
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