Company | Spectravideo |
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Type | home |
Year | 1983 |
Language | Microsoft Basic |
CPU | Zilog Z80 A |
Speed | 3.6 MHz |
RAM | 64 KB (up to 256 KB) |
ROM | 32 KB |
Text modes | 40×24 and 32×24 |
Graphic modes | 256×192 |
Colors | 16 |
Sound | 3 channels, 8 octaves |
The SV-328 was the business-targeted model of the Spectravideo range, sporting a rather crowded full-travel keyboard with numeric keypad, and no built-in joystick (though the arrow keys mimicked this function). It had 80 kB RAM (64 kB available for software, remaining 16 kB video memory), a respectable amount for its time. Other than the keyboard and RAM, this machine was identical to the SV-318.
The SV-328 is the design on which the MSX standard was based. Spectravideo's MSX-compliant successor to the 328, the SVI-728, looks almost identical, the only immediately noticeable differences being a larger cartridge slot (to fit MSX standard cartridges) and the MSX badging.