History of video games/Platforms/FM Towns

__NOTOC__ History thumb|The Fujitsu pavilion at Expo 85. The FM Towns was a Fujitsu computer that excelled at gaming and released in Japan in February 1989 for 338,000 yen.FM TOWNS (1989) - Fujitsu Global https://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/corporate/history/products/computer/personalcomputer/fmtowns.html www.fujitsu.com 25 November 2020OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=968 www.old-computers.com 25 November 2020 thumb|The die of an Intel 80386DX processor, similar to the one used in the FM Towns. The Towns part of the name is said to be a reference to Charles Hard Townes, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964.Charles H. Townes Facts https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1964/townes/facts/ 25 November 2020 As Charles Hard Townes invented the laserNobel laureate and laser inventor Charles Townes dies at 99 https://news.berkeley.edu/2015/01/27/nobel-laureate-and-laser-inventor-charles-townes-dies-at-99/ 25 November 2020 , the name is perhaps appropriate for the CD-ROM based computer, which uses a laser to read optical media. Technology Compute The FM Towns is powered by a 32 bit Intel 80386dx processor clocked at 16 megahertz, with a 80387 coprocessor. The FM Towns contained between 1 and 6 megabytes of RAM depending on the configuration. Hardware The FM Towns contained a built in CD-ROM drive standard. Software The FM Towns ran the custom Towns OS made by Fujitsu. References FM Towns FM Towns 2 100% __NOTOC__