22 Jan
2004
22 Jan
'04
11:50 a.m.
On 22 Jan 2004, Jules Richardson wrote:
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 04:21, Vintage Computer Festival
wrote:
Excellent!
It's rare that I find a unique and
interesting computer these days. This
Mitac LIC-2001A Little Intelligent Computer is one such. Apparently, it
was marketed in Japan because it has the Katakana (I think) character set
painted onto the keycap fronts, but otherwise is a standard QWERTY
keyboard layout.
hehe I posted on the list about one not so long ago; I have one too :-) Possibly Japanese, possibly Chinese by the way.
I'm leaning towards Korean now. In fact, I was thinking Korean from the
get go but that didn't jibe with my knowledge of Apple ][ clone history,
but I'd just never heard of a Korean Apple ][ clone before. I'll wager
it's Korean, which would make it even funkier.
Aha. For some *totally* unknown reason, mine came with
both UK and US
power supplies. I *think* I kept the US power supply even though I don't
need it - if I can find it I can look into postage for you.
Ah, excellent!
I had two backplane units with Apple bus connectors on
them; these plug
into the expansion connector on the back of the Mitac and give it a
proper bus for connecting standard Apple cards. Shout if you don't have
that and I can have a look for my spare.
I do not have that either and would certainly be grateful for one to
complete this system.
The usenet posts below suggest I still had at least
the second bus
expansion board in the middle of last year though..
Funny, this discussion didn't come up when I Googled on it. I guess I
should start getting used to checking Google Groups as well, but I would
think they would show relevant hits to Usenet discussions in their search
results.
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Anyone ever heard of this? The web turns up
empty.
http://tinyurl.com/yq2ah
prior to that the only info I could find on the web was that the darn
thing existed :)