8 Jun
2003
8 Jun
'03
11:20 p.m.
Peter et al--
I'll have a nose around- used to be an awful lot of APC-IIIs here- the
Telecom NZ fixed network is NEAX based (a line in electronic switches from
NEC) and the APC-IIIs were all over the place in the early days (15 plus
years ago) in use as terminals. But it's only recently the last of them have
been tossed out (probably still the odd one in service in reality!) in favor
of standard pc hardware. Those in use here all had CGA screens and either
dual floppies or (marvel of marvels!) 10/20Mb HDDs-- still probably some
docs about but only ever saw operating handbooks. Fairly sure I know where
there is still at least one keyboard---maybe two....
Dave Brown
Christchurch, NZ
PS- Guess what was supplied for use as a portable terminal-the 9801--used to
be lots of them about as well- I have one or two salted away-complete with
cassette tape units etc.
DB
----- Original Message -----
From: "peter tremewen" <ptremewe(a)bigpond.net.au>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: NEC APC III
My system likewise lacks a keyboard, If anyone has
some info on how I
might
connect one up or otherwise comunicate with one it
i'd be glad to hear it.
I
wonder if there are some old systems sitting around
gathering dust in the
back of some old chemist then?? I might make some enquiries in that
direction and see whatg happens.....
Peter T.
> I have a couple of them without keyboards so I can't do much with them.
> It's MS-DOS based, but not PC compatible. 8Mhz 8086,
> 640x400 color display. Mine have 720KB 5.25" floppy drives and 10MB
hard
> disks. They did release a PC emulator card for
them, but I don't think
it
> worked that well.