In 1982, Oki Electric Industry announced the OKITACsystem9 V57 Series (Models 200, 300, 500 and 700) which was equipped with Japan's first kana-kanji continuous phrase conversion function to make kanji (Chinese character) processing even easier. This series was equipped with an operating system for true real-time processing, with multitasking capability for controlling a maximum of 250 tasks. Online processing was also developed to enable vertical and horizontal distributed processing, and file transfer could be done easily in a fashion similar to file copying. Memory capacity ranged from 512 kilobytes to a maximum of 1.5 megabytes, and could be expanded to 10-80
megabytes with a hard disk unit. A sheet slide keyboard was standard, and pen-touch input was still available.
The OKITACsystem9 V60 Series (models 350, 450, 550, 650 and 750)
was announced later in 1985. It provided support for things like communication between AP, relational databases and LAN printers, and had enhanced online/network capability. The V60 Series was succeeded in 1987 by the V60SX Series, with an enhanced CPU.
| Model 200 | Model 300 | Model 500 | Model 700 | Model 800 | |
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| Announcement date | September 1982 | September 1984 | |||
| CPU | 16bit LSI | ||||
| Main memory capacity | 256KB- | 384KB- | 512KB- | 512KB-1.5MB | 1.5MB-2MB |
| CRT | 14inch CRT, Japanese language 1000char, alphanumeric/kana 2000char | Max. 16, green or color, 14inch 40char x 24line, alphanumeric/kana 80char x 24line | |||
| Keyboard | JIS layout or sheet slide, selectable | ||||
| Printer (Basic) | Japanese language printer, kanji 40char/s, kana 120char/s, 24x24dot | Japanese language ultra high-speed printer, kanji 60char/s, kana 150char/s, 24x24dot | Japanese language ultra high-speed printer, kanji 125char/s, kana 220char/s, 24x24dot | Selectable from 4 types: ET-8300: Kanji 40char/s ET-8530: Kanji 60char/s DP-1000: Kanji 125line/min DP-2000: Kanji 240line/min 24x24dot |
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| External memory unit | FDD 1MBx2 | Magnetic disk, selectable from 10, 20, 40 or 80MB | Magnetic disk 80MB x1-4 | ||
| Model | Model 350 | Model 450 | Model 550 | Model 650 | Model 750 | ||
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| Main memory unit | Element | VLSI (256K RAM) | |||||
| Memory capacity | 1MB-2MB | ||||||
| Floppy disk | 5inch | Basic | x2 | x1 | |||
| Expansion | x1 | ||||||
| 8inch expansion | x1 | ||||||
| Magnetic disk | Basic capacity | - | 20MB | 40MB | 67MB or 134MB | ||
| Maximum capacity | - | 40MB | 80MB | 536MB | |||
| CRT | 14inch (selectable from greenish-yellow, green and color (7 color)) Kana 80char x 25line, Kanji 40char x 25line |
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| Keyboard | JIS layout or sheet slide, selectable | ||||||
| Printer | Selectable from 5 types of printer and 3 types of line printer
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| Workstation expansion | CRT | -x1 | 2-3 | 4-5 | 15-16 | ||
| Keyboard | JIS layout or sheet slide, selectable | ||||||
| Communication lines (optional) | x2 | ||||||
| Backup magnetic tape | - | Expansion possible | |||||
