Editing Micro-Professor MPF-I (section)

{{Short description|Microcomputer released by Multitech in 1981}}
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| name          = Micro-Professor MPF-I
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| aka           = MPF-1<br>MPF-1A<br>MPF-1B
| logo          = 
| image         = Mpf-I.jpg
| caption       = Microprofessor I
| developer     = [[Acer Inc.|Multitech]]
| manufacturer  = [[Acer Inc.|Multitech]] (1981-1993)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.acer.com/APP/AKC/INTERNET/AACPubli.nsf/HeadingPagesDisplay/NewsroomMilestones?OpenDocument&ML2.9& |title=Summary of Acer Milestones: Acer America |accessdate=2004-05-01 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20030701105315/http://www.acer.com/APP/AKC/INTERNET/AACPubli.nsf/HeadingPagesDisplay/NewsroomMilestones?OpenDocument&ML2.9& |archivedate=1 July 2003 }}, ''1981:MicroProfessor-I becomes the company's first branded product.''</ref><br>Flite Electronics International Limited (1993-)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20161231004538/https://www.flite.co.uk/product.asp?numPageStartPosition=16&strPageHistory=&strKeywords=&strSearchCriteria=&PT_ID=1&P_ID=1 Flite Electronics – International Supplier of the Microprofessor Training System (archived content)]</ref><ref>[https://electrickery.nl/comp/mpf1/ Yet another computer museum - Multitech MPF-1]</ref>
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| releasedate   = {{Start date and age|1981}}
| lifespan      = 
| price         = $149
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| os            = 2&nbsp;KB [[machine code monitor|monitor]] [[read-only memory|ROM]]
| power         = 5&nbsp;V via 7805 from 9&nbsp;V at 500&nbsp;mA mains adapter 
| soc           = 
| cpu           = [[Zilog Z80]] @ 1.79&nbsp;MHz
| memory        = 2&nbsp;KB RAM
| storage       = [[Compact Cassette (data)|Compact Cassette]]
| memory card   = 
| display       = Six digit 7-segment display.
| graphics      = 
| sound         = Beeper
| input         = Hexadecimal calculator-type keyboard (36 keys including, 16 hexadecimal keys, 19 function keys, and one user-definable key)
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| successor     = MPF-1 Plus
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The '''Micro-Professor MPF-I''' is a [[microcomputer]] released by Multitech (later renamed [[Acer Inc.|Acer]]) in 1981. The company's first branded product, it was marketed as a [[Microprocessor development board|training system]] to learn [[machine code]] and [[assembly language]] for the [[Zilog Z80]] [[microprocessor]]. After releasing several iterations of the product, Acer sold the product line to Flite Electronics in 1993.