22 Jan
2004
22 Jan
'04
6:13 a.m.
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 04:21, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
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 just can't verify this by booting it up because
it has a very funky
power connector which requires an external power supply of some sort
(which I didn't get with this).
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.
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 don't normally throw stuff out (especially not without offering it to
the list first) but I have been doing a lot of thinning-down of stuff
this last year, so no guarantees I have either any more :(
The usenet posts below suggest I still had at least the second bus
expansion board in the middle of last year though..
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 :)
cheers
Jules