FM Towns

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FM Towns

FM Towns Model 2F
Developer	Fujitsu
Manufacturer	Fujitsu
Product family	FM Towns
Generation	Fourth Generation
Release date	JP: February 28, 1989
Lifespan	1989–1997
Discontinued	Summer 1997
Units sold	500,000[1]
Media	Compact disc
Operating system	Towns OS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95
Display	320×200 - 720×512 resolutions, 256 colors on-screen out of a palette of 32 768
Graphics	Fujitsu custom graphics chip
Sound	Ricoh RF5c68 Yamaha YM2612
Power	100 VAC ～
Related	FM Towns Marty

The FM Towns (Japanese: エフエムタウンズ, Hepburn: Efu Emu Taunzu) is a Japanese personal computer built by Fujitsu from February 1989 to the summer of 1997. It started as a proprietary PC variant intended for multimedia applications and PC games, but later became more compatible with IBM PC compatibles. In 1993, the FM Towns Marty was released, a game console compatible with existing FM Towns games.

The "FM" part of the name means "Fujitsu Micro" like their earlier products, while the "Towns" part is derived from the code name the system was assigned while in development, "Townes". This refers to Charles Townes, one of the winners of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics, following a custom of Fujitsu at the time to code name PC products after Nobel Prize winners. The e in "Townes" was dropped when the system went into production to make it clearer that the term was to be pronounced like the word "towns" rather than the potential "tow-nes".^[2]