SPC-1000

The SPC-1000 launched in 1983 as the first personal computer produced by Samsung.^[3] The machine was mainly used in education.^[4]

The main unit includes the keyboard and a built-in tape recorder. External disk drives, a gamepad, and a dedicated CRT monitor^[4] can be connected to this unit. The computer can run CP/M if equipped with double-sided, double density floppy disk drives.

Software was published on cassette tapes, with more than one hundred games and programs.^[5] Some games were conversions of popular Arcade games in the early 1980s, adapted to the computer's limitations.^[6][7]

The computer has a Zilog Z80 CPU running at 4 MHz,^[2] and 64KB of RAM. Sound is produced by a General Instrument AY-3-8910 chip, providing 3 voices with 8 octaves each.^[2] Video is generated by an AMI S68047 chip (quite similar to the Motorola 6847^[8]), offering semigraphics in 9 colors, a 128 × 192 mode in 4 colors, or a 256 × 192 mode in 2 colors.^[2][9]

Gallery

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  Gamepad for SPC-1000
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  Software cassette tapes for Samsung SPC series
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  SPC-1000/1000A demonstration program tapes
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  User contest software collection AAK-010T cover and AAK-011T tape
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  SPC-1000 boot screen
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  HuBASIC program listing
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  SPC-1000 text and color demonstration

There are 65 known SPC-1000 video games.^[10][11]