NEC Advert - November 1982
From Personal Computer World
NEC turns 28 years of computer experience to your personal advantage
NEC's PC-8000 - known as the PC-8001 outside of Europe - was part of NEC's PC-8000 range. It was only the third fully-assembled microcomputer specifically made for the Japanese market, being beaten only by Hitachi's Basic Master, and Sharp's MZ-80K[1].
It ran NEC's Z80 clone - the 4MHz μPD780C-1 - which meant it could run CP/M software, although it only had 16K by default, which wasn't a lot of memory. Despite its lack of graphics, there was a very large range of games available for it, although most of them required 32K.
Although it looks like the standard monitor, base-unit and keyboard in an IBM PC style, the processor board was actually housed in the keyboard, which is why it's unusually large and tall.
Date created: 11 January 2024
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