The Sanyo PHC-25 is a home computer released in Japan in 1982 by the electronics company
Sanyo
is a former Japanese electronics manufacturer founded in 1947 by Toshio Iue, the brother-in-law of Kōnosuke Matsushita, the founder of Matsushita Electric Industrial, now known as Panasonic. Iue left Matsushita Electric to start his own bu ...
.
The machine was presented on the U.S. at the 1983
CES with a price of $264.
PHC is an acronym for ''Personal Home Computer''.
It is a member of the same family as the Sanyo PHC-10 and Sanyo PHC-20.
It came with Sanyo Basic v1.3, an eighty instruction
BASIC
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dialect.
A few emulators exist for this system.
Technical specifications
The computer had the following technical specifications:
* CPU:
NEC D780C (compatible
Zilog Z80A), 4 MHz
* Memory: 16K
RAM
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, 6KB
VRAM
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, 24K
ROM
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* Keyboard: 65 keys, 4 function keys, 4 arrow keys
* Graphics:
Motorola 6847, 16 x 16 / 32 x 16 text; 64 x 48 (8 colors) / 128 x 192 (4 colors) / 256 x 192 (4 colors) graphics
* Sound: Optional (PSG-01 extension)
* I/O Ports:
DIN-8 cassette tape connector,
printer port, DIN-8 RGB video out, composite video out, expansion port
References
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Home computers
Z80-based home computers
Computer-related introductions in 1983
Sanyo computer products