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Sord M5 (CGL M5)

Sord M5 (CGL M5)
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CGL M5 with rubber keyboard
Photo: own photograph
Connectors on the back of the CGL M5
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Summary

The M5 from Japan’s Sord Computer Corporation appeared in Japan in November 1982. Computer Games Limited sold it in Britain as the CGL M5. It has a 3.58 MHz Z80, 4 KB RAM and 16 KB video RAM. Graphics and sound use chips later also found in MSX systems: the TMS9918 with 256 × 192 pixels, 16 colours and 32 sprites, and the SN76489 sound chip.

Programming languages arrive on cartridges: BASIC-I, BASIC-G for graphics and sound, BASIC-F for floating-point numbers, and the FALC application package. The rubber keyboard is typical of inexpensive home computers of the period. At £195, the M5 was more expensive in Britain than the ZX Spectrum and VIC-20; in Czechoslovakia, however, it was among the first home computers affordable to private individuals. With MSX offering very similar technology, the M5 disappeared from the market in the mid-1980s.

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