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NEC PC-8001

NEC · 1979

The machine that started Japanese personal computing: NEC's first complete computer, a Z80 with BASIC in ROM, released in 1979 and an immediate success that established the PC-8000 line and NEC's dominance of the Japanese market for a decade. Historically to Japan roughly what the Apple II was to America.

As catalogued

Maker
NEC
CPU
NEC D780C-4
Memory
16K, 32K
Styles
PC-8001, PC-8001mkII
Regions
NTSC-J (Japan), NTSC-U (US), PAL (Europe)
Chassis
keyboard unit with a separate monitor
OS
N-BASIC

Chips

2
CPU
NEC D780C, NEC D780C-1
CRTC
NEC D3301

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