October 15, 2013 at 22:08Japanese text editor Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII
Good day, comrades habrazhiteli!
Recently, a fairly large activity has been observed in the Old Iron hub both from the side of the authors and from the side of readers. Moreover, judging by the number of pluses for publications in this hub, reviews of old technology are really interesting and in demand. And for that matter, I decided to get the miracle of the Japanese engineers of Fujitsu - the text editor OASYS 30AFII from a dark corner, and share with you its review.
Attention! A lot of pictures and photos.
What is the Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII text editor?
OASYS 30AFII is a specialized laptop computer based on the 16-bit Intel 80186 processor, which has a 12 "monochrome (blue-white) liquid crystal display, two 3.5" drives, a built-in thermal printer and a keyboard with Japanese characters. All this is structurally combined in one case and weighs about 8 kg, and its dimensions are 360x155x348 mm.
In addition to the built-in peripherals, there are connectors for connecting a printer and modem.
OASYS software allowed not only editing and creating text files, but also working with tables, diagrams and figures. It was possible to print the necessary document or write the address on the envelope “without leaving the cash desk” using the printer integrated in the upper part of the case, and this is exactly what the Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII text editor compares favorably with other wearable computers of that time.
Using a modem, the Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII text editor was able to exchange files with ordinary personal computers.
As you can see, it is possible to use both an external and an internal modem. However, the internal modem (however, like the external one) must be purchased separately.
The text editor Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII can interact not only with personal computers, but also with some office equipment, but in most cases a special matching device is required to connect it.
The Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII text editor was announced in June 1987 and sold for 248,000 yen.
Specifications.
Processor - Intel 80186, unknown frequency
RAM - 256KB
Hard disk - none
Drive - 2x 3.5 "FDD
Monitor - 12" LCD (monochrome), 840 characters (21 lines, 40 characters per line)
Printing device - 24-needle thermal printer .
Power supply - built-in, 110 V, 50 / 60Hz, 45 W
Software + quest.
Unfortunately, information about the operating system and OASYS software used is virtually absent on the Internet. The most useful site was http://www.ykanda.jp/ , however, those who do not know the Japanese language have nothing to do there. Even the magazines of the time in which the Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII advertisement was published did not sparkle with technical details.
I honestly admit that I do not speak Japanese, so I had to be content with the “pearls” that the Google translator gave me.
The Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII text editor presumably (! ??) is running a slightly modified MS-DOS 3.1 operating system, with the OASYS operating system and software located on just one double-density diskette (720 Kb). The second drive, as you probably guessed, allowed you to work with documents stored on a separate diskette without removing the boot diskette.
The file system of these diskettes is not compatible with FAT12 and FAT16 — a personal computer running DOS / Windows does not read such diskettes.
Naturally, I tried to slip the boot diskette containing the regular version of MS-DOS 3.2 and a couple of diagnostic utilities to the Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII editor, but to my chagrin, he did not want to start from it, which honestly warned me in Japanese.
However, I was able to copy data from my own floppy disks to the image file using the Teledisk 2.23 program. It is completely possible that someone also has this text editor, but the diskettes to it are lost or damaged, so it makes sense to honestly share the captured images ( you can take them here ).
Just do not forget that before recording the image on a 1.44 Mb (2HD) diskette, you need to turn it into a DD (720Kb) diskette by carefully sticking the density selection window with a blue electrical tape.
And now - a quest for the brave, dexterous, skillful!
Due to the fact that I could neither read nor write the information to floppy disks in a format understood by the OASYS 30AFII text editor, I sincerely hope that the spirit of medieval naturalists, awakened by wisdom and life experience, will help me in the readers of Habr, which will help me bring the matter to an end.
If you can find a way to read / write files from the native floppy disks of the Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII text editor, or you can create a bootable floppy disk with MS-DOS and a couple of diagnostic utilities (and you can boot from it), I’ll give that hero two frogs, and welcome the fir cone! Anyway, no one reads the text, but looks only at the pictures. Since floppy disk image filescompressed by Teledisk, I highly recommend pre-burning them to floppy disks and only then start your experiments.
Appearance.
Ready-to-carry (with the keyboard removed, the printer closed, and the handle raised), the Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII resembles a suitcase containing a pair of bricks. I remind you that its weight is 8 kilograms, and not every office worker can call it light.
In the retracted state, the keyboard is fixed on the front of the case with two latches.
We take out the keyboard and we see a monochrome LCD screen. The angle of its inclination can be adjusted.
The keyboard buttons are signed with hieroglyphs, but they have not forgotten about the English layout either.
Справа от монитора расположены регуляторы яркости и контраста.
С правой стороны корпуса расположены два 3.5" дисковода и кнопка включения питания.
На задней стенке текстового редактора Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII располагаются два интерфейсных разъема и закрывающийся крышкой отсек, куда убирается провод питания.
На верхней части корпуса располагается термопринтер, который также закрывается крышкой.
Картридж для принтера заправлен не обычной лентой с краской, а специальной термопленкой, красящее вещество с которой переносится на обычную бумагу под воздействием высокой температуры.
К сожалению, картридж давно испортился от времени — вместо ожидаемого текста из принтера выходит девственно чистый лист.
Внутреннее устройство.
My first acquaintance with the inner world of Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII happened twenty minutes after it fell into my hands. In order to make sure that the Japanese text editor is working, I decided to include it in the electric network, and in our domestic one. I was not embarrassed by the bourgeois plug at the end of the power cord - the previous owner of this device carefully attached an adapter to it, so with a clear conscience I plugged it into a power outlet. Turn on, it works!
But Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII did not work at all for a long time, and after two minutes it turned off spontaneously. And he didn’t want to turn on anymore.
Only after this incident, I remembered that in Japan, the supply voltage of household appliances is only 100 volts, and, armed with a screwdriver, climbed to change the fuse. After replacing it, the text editor started working again, and to prevent this from happening again, I had to get a step-down transformer.
In order to get to the insides of the Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII text editor, you need to unscrew the 2 screws on the back of the case.
Remove the back wall.
The device boards are closed from electromagnetic interference by a metallized film screen.
CPU A80186.
Memory - 8 microchips of 32Kb each. Total 256 Kb of RAM.
Proprietary Fujitsu chips on the background of Motorola's standard logic IC.
There is another one under the first board.
In the lower part, next to the fan, there is a power supply. On the left is the drive block.
Now you can collect everything as it was, and turn on the text editor.
Demonstration of work.
Actually, I will not show you how to work with the text editor Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII. Not because I am harmful, but because I could not figure out how it works without knowledge of the Japanese language. Using the universal poke method, it was possible to determine which button should be pressed so that the printer starts printing. Also, quite by accident, it was possible to delete one file from a floppy disk, after which, from sin away, all empirical experiments were stopped.
Download a text editor from a floppy disk. Start screen
List of files on a floppy disk.
Open some file. Oppa! Cyrillic?
We go to another menu item. Anyway, nothing is clear.
Conclusion
That, perhaps, is all that I wanted to tell Habr’s readers about the Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII text editor. In my review, I did not touch on the practical part of working with OASYS software (for example, working with text or tables), since without knowledge of the Japanese language this is practically impossible. There is a possibility that one of the respected readers has dealt with this text editor, and will be able to share additional information about it. And to anyone who can make a bootable floppy disk with MS-DOS for Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII, or find a way to read and write information from his floppy disks, I would greatly appreciate help.
Have a nice day and thank you for your attention.
Recently, a fairly large activity has been observed in the Old Iron hub both from the side of the authors and from the side of readers. Moreover, judging by the number of pluses for publications in this hub, reviews of old technology are really interesting and in demand. And for that matter, I decided to get the miracle of the Japanese engineers of Fujitsu - the text editor OASYS 30AFII from a dark corner, and share with you its review.
Attention! A lot of pictures and photos.
What is the Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII text editor?
OASYS 30AFII is a specialized laptop computer based on the 16-bit Intel 80186 processor, which has a 12 "monochrome (blue-white) liquid crystal display, two 3.5" drives, a built-in thermal printer and a keyboard with Japanese characters. All this is structurally combined in one case and weighs about 8 kg, and its dimensions are 360x155x348 mm.
In addition to the built-in peripherals, there are connectors for connecting a printer and modem.
OASYS software allowed not only editing and creating text files, but also working with tables, diagrams and figures. It was possible to print the necessary document or write the address on the envelope “without leaving the cash desk” using the printer integrated in the upper part of the case, and this is exactly what the Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII text editor compares favorably with other wearable computers of that time.
Using a modem, the Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII text editor was able to exchange files with ordinary personal computers.
As you can see, it is possible to use both an external and an internal modem. However, the internal modem (however, like the external one) must be purchased separately.
The text editor Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII can interact not only with personal computers, but also with some office equipment, but in most cases a special matching device is required to connect it.
The Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII text editor was announced in June 1987 and sold for 248,000 yen.
Specifications.
Processor - Intel 80186, unknown frequency
RAM - 256KB
Hard disk - none
Drive - 2x 3.5 "FDD
Monitor - 12" LCD (monochrome), 840 characters (21 lines, 40 characters per line)
Printing device - 24-needle thermal printer .
Power supply - built-in, 110 V, 50 / 60Hz, 45 W
Software + quest.
Unfortunately, information about the operating system and OASYS software used is virtually absent on the Internet. The most useful site was http://www.ykanda.jp/ , however, those who do not know the Japanese language have nothing to do there. Even the magazines of the time in which the Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII advertisement was published did not sparkle with technical details.
I honestly admit that I do not speak Japanese, so I had to be content with the “pearls” that the Google translator gave me.
The Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII text editor presumably (! ??) is running a slightly modified MS-DOS 3.1 operating system, with the OASYS operating system and software located on just one double-density diskette (720 Kb). The second drive, as you probably guessed, allowed you to work with documents stored on a separate diskette without removing the boot diskette.
The file system of these diskettes is not compatible with FAT12 and FAT16 — a personal computer running DOS / Windows does not read such diskettes.
Naturally, I tried to slip the boot diskette containing the regular version of MS-DOS 3.2 and a couple of diagnostic utilities to the Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII editor, but to my chagrin, he did not want to start from it, which honestly warned me in Japanese.
However, I was able to copy data from my own floppy disks to the image file using the Teledisk 2.23 program. It is completely possible that someone also has this text editor, but the diskettes to it are lost or damaged, so it makes sense to honestly share the captured images ( you can take them here ).
Just do not forget that before recording the image on a 1.44 Mb (2HD) diskette, you need to turn it into a DD (720Kb) diskette by carefully sticking the density selection window with a blue electrical tape.
And now - a quest for the brave, dexterous, skillful!
Due to the fact that I could neither read nor write the information to floppy disks in a format understood by the OASYS 30AFII text editor, I sincerely hope that the spirit of medieval naturalists, awakened by wisdom and life experience, will help me in the readers of Habr, which will help me bring the matter to an end.
If you can find a way to read / write files from the native floppy disks of the Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII text editor, or you can create a bootable floppy disk with MS-DOS and a couple of diagnostic utilities (and you can boot from it), I’ll give that hero two frogs, and welcome the fir cone! Anyway, no one reads the text, but looks only at the pictures. Since floppy disk image filescompressed by Teledisk, I highly recommend pre-burning them to floppy disks and only then start your experiments.
Appearance.
Ready-to-carry (with the keyboard removed, the printer closed, and the handle raised), the Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII resembles a suitcase containing a pair of bricks. I remind you that its weight is 8 kilograms, and not every office worker can call it light.
In the retracted state, the keyboard is fixed on the front of the case with two latches.
We take out the keyboard and we see a monochrome LCD screen. The angle of its inclination can be adjusted.
The keyboard buttons are signed with hieroglyphs, but they have not forgotten about the English layout either.
Справа от монитора расположены регуляторы яркости и контраста.
С правой стороны корпуса расположены два 3.5" дисковода и кнопка включения питания.
На задней стенке текстового редактора Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII располагаются два интерфейсных разъема и закрывающийся крышкой отсек, куда убирается провод питания.
На верхней части корпуса располагается термопринтер, который также закрывается крышкой.
Картридж для принтера заправлен не обычной лентой с краской, а специальной термопленкой, красящее вещество с которой переносится на обычную бумагу под воздействием высокой температуры.
К сожалению, картридж давно испортился от времени — вместо ожидаемого текста из принтера выходит девственно чистый лист.
Внутреннее устройство.
My first acquaintance with the inner world of Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII happened twenty minutes after it fell into my hands. In order to make sure that the Japanese text editor is working, I decided to include it in the electric network, and in our domestic one. I was not embarrassed by the bourgeois plug at the end of the power cord - the previous owner of this device carefully attached an adapter to it, so with a clear conscience I plugged it into a power outlet. Turn on, it works!
But Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII did not work at all for a long time, and after two minutes it turned off spontaneously. And he didn’t want to turn on anymore.
Only after this incident, I remembered that in Japan, the supply voltage of household appliances is only 100 volts, and, armed with a screwdriver, climbed to change the fuse. After replacing it, the text editor started working again, and to prevent this from happening again, I had to get a step-down transformer.
In order to get to the insides of the Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII text editor, you need to unscrew the 2 screws on the back of the case.
Remove the back wall.
The device boards are closed from electromagnetic interference by a metallized film screen.
CPU A80186.
Memory - 8 microchips of 32Kb each. Total 256 Kb of RAM.
Proprietary Fujitsu chips on the background of Motorola's standard logic IC.
There is another one under the first board.
In the lower part, next to the fan, there is a power supply. On the left is the drive block.
Now you can collect everything as it was, and turn on the text editor.
Demonstration of work.
Actually, I will not show you how to work with the text editor Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII. Not because I am harmful, but because I could not figure out how it works without knowledge of the Japanese language. Using the universal poke method, it was possible to determine which button should be pressed so that the printer starts printing. Also, quite by accident, it was possible to delete one file from a floppy disk, after which, from sin away, all empirical experiments were stopped.
Download a text editor from a floppy disk. Start screen
List of files on a floppy disk.
Open some file. Oppa! Cyrillic?
We go to another menu item. Anyway, nothing is clear.
Conclusion
That, perhaps, is all that I wanted to tell Habr’s readers about the Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII text editor. In my review, I did not touch on the practical part of working with OASYS software (for example, working with text or tables), since without knowledge of the Japanese language this is practically impossible. There is a possibility that one of the respected readers has dealt with this text editor, and will be able to share additional information about it. And to anyone who can make a bootable floppy disk with MS-DOS for Fujitsu OASYS 30AFII, or find a way to read and write information from his floppy disks, I would greatly appreciate help.
Have a nice day and thank you for your attention.
