ID Hitachi S1
Short Name
Name S1
Company Hitachi
Description Nearly nothing is known about this obscure system. Help welcome !
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Pat from Australia, remembers:
On a whim, I looked up the Hitachi S1. When I was much younger - probably in 1984 or 1985 - my dad worked as a Hitachi reseller in Australia. The S1 was not sold outside of Japan to my knowledge, but it did have English available as a language so that may not be for certain. What really caught my attention outside of the amazing computational capabilities and colours (having used Hitachi Peaches for quite a while) was that the S1 (or at least the one I was playing with) had a hard disk! If only I could remember the name of the games I was playing on this thing!
Date Available Unknown
Type Computer
Emulators
Alternate Names Hitachi S1
Links
Matches nointro Hitachi - S1 (Waveform)
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tosec Hitachi S1 - Games - [L3B]
tosec Hitachi S1 - Games - [L3C]
tosec Hitachi S1 - Games - [WAV]
nointro Hitachi - S1 (Waveform)
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    "image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/hitachi_s1_1.jpg",
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    "name": "S1",
    "manufacturer": "Hitachi",
    "type": "Professional Computer",
    "origin": "Japan",
    "year": "Unknown",
    "built_in_language": "Unknown",
    "keyboard": "Full-stroke keyboard with numeric keypad",
    "cpu": "Motorola 68B09E",
    "speed": "1/2 MHz",
    "ram": "106 KB (max 618 KB)",
    "vram": "Unknown",
    "rom": "24 KB (Level3 Basic) + 64 KB (S1 Basic)",
    "text_modes": "Unknown",
    "graphic_modes": "640 x 200 / 320 x 200?",
    "colors": "256",
    "sound": "Unknown",
    "io_ports": "Tape, RS232C, Printer",
    "built_in_media": "optional external 5.25",
    "os": "Built in Basic",
    "power_supply": "Built-in power supply unit",
    "price": "$1199 (Australia, 1985)",
    "photos": [
        {
            "name": "The S1-45 ",
            "image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/s145.jpg",
            "description": "The S1 was followed by the S1-45 (I have no information about it)."
        },
        {
            "name": "Australian price lis... ",
            "image": "https://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/hitachi_mbs1_price-list.jpg",
            "description": "<p class=\"petitgris\">Thanks to David Wilson for this picture</p>"
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tosec Hitachi S1 - Games - [L3B]
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tosec Hitachi S1 - Games - [L3C]
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tosec Hitachi S1 - Games - [WAV]
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