FZ-55

[bitrate]

Thought I would add some pics and info about the Panasonic/Matsushita FZ-55. It seems to be quite a bit more obscure when compared with its cousin the FZ-35S.

Like the FZ-35S, the FZ-55 was a Point of Sale/Interest media kiosk endowed with the M2 chipset. Also like the FZ-35S, the FZ-55 was available in different configurations. Some options included CD drive or DVD drive, and with or without IDE hard disk. The front panel interface also offered different hardware options. I will update this post a little later with pictures of the different "models" of FZ-55.


Those people without software for their FZ-35S should recognize the following two images.







Some input/output options...







Pictures of the back of the unit with and without plastic shell...







Here is the chipset...

[Borman]

Awesome, I think most people (including myself) forget about that unit, so its great to see.

[3do]

Ah, been trying to remember the name of this unit for months but never could i kept thinking FZ-35 but hats a different unit.

Only saw this once or twice so nice pictures and thanks for sharing them.

[awbacon]

Coffee machine kiosk goodness. I had the pleasure of ordering a coffee off an M2 in Asia. Coffee sucked (so did the UI as well...I wish I knew it was actually M2 hardware when I bought the coffee)

[ASSEMbler]

You know that board layout is damn close to retail

[madhatter256]

I remember seeing that stuff over in russian websites. Also advertised as POS and even ATM systems.

[awbacon]

anyone else find it interesting the 3DO was huge in Russia?

[ASSEMbler]

Russia = dumping ground for failed Japanese hardware.

[Mezonin]

3DO Community in Russia is very huge XD Not long ago was anounced IDE adapter for 3DO FZ10 - now we can use PC CD\DVD-rom for playing games on FZ-10.

madhatter256 - you saw it on Russian site, where that topic was made by bitrate ;)