Fujitsu Ltd is so determined to make its Rolls Royce of a home computer, the 80386-based FM Towns, a commercial success that the company held a three-day bash, complete with pop stars and artificial intelligence-assisted demonstrations of its capabilities, at the Big Egg, Tokyo Dome baseball stadium: the box has a 16MHz 80386 CPU, monitor […]
Fujitsu Ltd is so determined to make its Rolls Royce of a home computer, the 80386-based FM Towns, a commercial success that the company held a three-day bash, complete with pop stars and artificial intelligence-assisted demonstrations of its capabilities, at the Big Egg, Tokyo Dome baseball stadium: the box has a 16MHz 80386 CPU, monitor options going up to 256 colours in 640 by 480 pixels, and one or two 3.5 floppy disks, but, but more importantly, a Compact Disk reader-player in a unit with two loudspeakers at the back; options include hard disks and various expansion cards, and there is a wealth of software already developed to give the NEC Corp PC-9801 series a run for its money for once, in both the fireside and the business market all the major word processors and databases are available in FM Towns versions, but, writes our lady on the spot, Anita Byrnes, judging by the crowds of teenagers at the show and the number of games software packages on show (including mah-jong and Go), Towns is aimed fairly and squarely at young people with affluent parents – Japanyuppies.
