The Hitachi MB6890 was released in 1980 with Hitachi Level-3 BASIC version 1.0

The computer came with 48KByte of main RAM and 16KByte of VRAM. It was capable of high resolution of 640x200 and could display up to 8 colors.

The following optional peripherals were available:

• Tape Recorder
• Printer interface
• Light-Pen
• Chinese Character ROM board
• 8088 CPU Board
• Disk Interface Board
• Z80 CPU Board
• RAM expansion boards

The Motorola 6809 is an 8-bit microprocessor with some 16-bit features. It was designed by Motorola's Terry Ritter and Joel Boney and introduced in 1978. Although source compatible with the earlier Motorola 6800, the 6809 offered significant improvements over it and 8-bit contemporaries like the MOS Technology 6502, including a hardware multiplication instruction, 16-bit arithmetic, system and user stack registers allowing re-entrant code, improved interrupts, position-independent code and an orthogonal instruction set architecture with a comprehensive set of addressing modes.