Commodore 710 “Porsche Design” with Commodore 8250LP, dual floppy disk drive, displayed in my office.
Although this retro computer is often referred to as the Commodore 710 “Porsche Design”, in reality it seems that it was never designed by Porsche Design of Stuttgart.
The Commodore 710 is part of the Commodore CBM-II series: a line of 8-bit personal computers manufactured by Commodore Business Machines (CBM) between 1982 and 1984.
Technical characteristics of the Commodore 710
CPU: MOS 6509 a 2MHz (Zilog Z80 & Intel 8088 opzionali)
ROM: 28 KB
RAM: 128 KB
Video: Text mode 80 characters x 25 lines, monochrome
Audio: MOS SID (same as Commodore 64, MOS 6581)
Keyboard: 94 keys, with numeric keypad and programmable function keys
Software incluso in ROM: BASIC 4.0
Floppy disk drive: foreign (internal optional)
Expansion ports:
- 1 IEEE-488
- 1 Serial RS-232
- 1 Expansion port (per cartucce)
- 1 Audio
- 1 Datassette port (cassette player)
- Dimensions: 46 (width) x 59.5 (depth) x 46 (height) cm
- Power supply: 220-240Vac, 130W, internal switching power supply
Papers
1. Commodore CBM II, 500 600 700, user guide
2. Commodore CBM II, 700, reference manual
3. Commodore CBM II, schematics
Date of entry into the collection: 07/01/2022