It’s pretty hard to sum up how crazy those semifinals were, but we think this point does a good job of it 😵‍💫

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Came across this compact floppy disk on a second hsnd marketplace. It looks like the 3" diskettes used on the Amstead CPC 6128, but I'm not quite sure it's exactly the same. Bought it anyway, worst case it'll be one for the "odd media" collection.

It says M5 on the label. On the other side is C-5/B. The brand is Sord Computer Corporation. They had an M5 computer model, but that took regular 5.25" disks from what I can see...


#RetroComputing #FloppyDisk #Amstrad #AmstradCPC #amstrad6128 #cpc6128
#Sord #SordComputerCorporation

New blog post! What do you do when a new computer needs a cartridge in order to work at all? Make that cartridge! Today, we're having fun with the teeny-tiny Sord M5 from 1982 thanks to KiCad's new tracing tools.

https://www.leadedsolder.com/2025/05/13/sord-m5-pickup-rom-cartridge-pcb.html

#retrocomputing #8bit #z80 #sord #sordm5 #kicad

Lord of the Sord

A Sord M5 home computer is disassembled and studied, and a homemade game cartridge is produced that can run BASIC and Funny Mouse. Pinouts for the cartridge bus, as well as memory and I/O maps, are provided.

Leaded Solder
ASCII.jp:1980年代、日本発マイコンベンチャー「ソード」を知っているか──椎名堯慶氏インタビュー(後編) (1/4) https://ascii.jp/elem/000/004/262/4262999/ #SORD
1980年代、日本発マイコンベンチャー「ソード」を知っているか──椎名堯慶氏インタビュー(後編) (1/4)

イノベーション・起業家の育成が喧伝されるいまだが、1970~1980年代に国内で唯一パソコンのハードとソフトの両方で市場を席捲したメーカーがあった。そのソードの創業者である椎名堯慶氏へのインタビューの貴重なインタビューをお届けする。

ASCII.jp

Figgy found himself a sord
It wite and gots a dent
He karry it awound da hous
Not caring dat it bent

Silly Figgy, runs awound
And in his mouff, his sord
Den he leebs it on da steps
Wen finally he bored

#CheddarPoetry #SillyFiggy #Sord #HeChewHisSord #SordsForFitingNotChewing #CatsOfMastodon

Silly Figgy find a sord
He run awound
He sing his songs
He play wif it
All happyly

He take a bwake
To hab a dwink
He take his sord
Puts it in in bol

And dere it stay
Dat silly Fig
Forget his sord
Leebs it behind

#SillyFiggy #Sord #SordsNotGoInWater #catsofmastadon

Figgy found a fomee sord
He sings a happy song
Runs awound, he bites it lots
He karrys it along

Figgy bites it way too much
In peeses, he still plays
Den he sing a song of sad
Wen it be tooked away

#CheddarPoetry #SillyFiggy #Sord #FiggyCwyLotsWenMamaTookedIt #HeWantItBak #catsofmastadon

Now for my next trick, I've added Sord M5 support to CVBasic. But currently I don't have a way to test the generated binaries. #retro #retrogaming #sord #sordm5 https://github.com/nanochess/CVBasic
GitHub - nanochess/CVBasic: BASIC language compiler for Colecovision, MSX, SG1000/SMS, Spectravideo SVI-318/328, Creativision, Sord M5, Memotech MTX, Tatung Einstein, Casio PV-2000, and Hanimex/Soundic Pencil II.

BASIC language compiler for Colecovision, MSX, SG1000/SMS, Spectravideo SVI-318/328, Creativision, Sord M5, Memotech MTX, Tatung Einstein, Casio PV-2000, and Hanimex/Soundic Pencil II. - nanochess/...

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