#smc777
New blog post! 80s Sony wasn't always an unstoppable cyberpunk megacorp. Sometimes they sat down and spent an unfathomable amount of Bubble money making their own proprietary 8-bit computer from scratch. Let's fix it!
#retrocomputing #sony #smc777 #smc70 #z80
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The title screen for the space shooter Striz B.H., except it's bright red and all the colours are wrong.
The infinite redness of outer space looks weird on this SMC-777. #retrocomputing #smc777
The sign-on banner for Sony SMC-70 CP/M version 2.2, containing the files SETUP.COM, STAT.COM, ED.COM, DIAG.COM, BACKUP.COM, DDT.COM, ASM.COM, SAMPLE.TXT, SUBMIT.COM, LOAD.COM, DUMP.COM, XSUB.COM, PIP.COM, and DUMP.ASM
My battered Sony SMC-777 home computer, missing a floppy drive and also a few pieces of trim.
Some bodging and poking later, and I have finally gotten the Gotek to boot a disk image on the Sony SMC-777. Now to figure out how to bodge up the other disk images floating around, and to devise a mounting kit and faceplate. #retrocomputing #smc777 #cpm
Brown silastic goop around the base of some capacitors has corroded this innocent wire link.
I hate whatever this brown potting compound is. It takes a ton of physical labour to get off, and it corrodes components around it. #retrocomputing #smc777
SMC-777版 AntiAir #smc777
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