5 Mar
2006
5 Mar
'06
3:54 p.m.
the 9801 was not an all in one though. I cant imagine
myself confusing NEC and NCR actually, just that I was
somewhat familiar with their PC4s, and it seemed a tad
different IIRC. It could have been the Decision Mate,
which doesnt look any different, and would also boot
to a cpm a> prompt (Im thinking so anyway). The thing
just somehow looked different...(I was hoping some
nerd who also used to shop their might subscribe to
this list).
--- cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org <Tim at Rikers.org>
wrote:
the boot drive even if
Chris M wrote:
> the talk of a peculiar USR pc made me remember
this.
> There used to be a (primarily) electronic junk
store
> in LI called Eldies (Edlies?) on Hempstead Tnpk
in
> Levittown I guess. Sitting there one day was an
all in
> one, IIRC, NCR unit that booted up to an a:>
prompt.
> It struck me as a weirdish dos semi compatible.
It
> didnt strike me as a PC4 or the nearly identical
> Decision Mate (cpm). Pretty sure it was NCR, but
eh
maybe it was
NEC (definately NOT an APC, not quite
that big and heavy). Anyone have a clue?
The Japanese NEC PC-9800 series booted with A: as it booted off a hard disk. the floppies would become
the next drives.
Was the text in japanese?
I did software development on some of these models
back around 1990. All
the M$ tools were available for them, but only from
Japanese dealers and
only in Japanese.
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