The NC200, was the last model of the NC series which was comprised of the NC 100 and NC 150.
It was a very much smarter, more professional design, with a larger fold-out screen - offering 80 columns by 16 lines - a built-in 3½ inch, 720 kilobyte floppy disk drive for storage, but at a heftier price tag of £329.
It also had a spreadsheet, which the NC100 did not, as well as twice as much built-in memory at 128 kilobytes.
Please consider donating your old computer / videogame system to Old-Computers.com or one of our partners from anywhere in the world (Europe, America, Asia, etc.).
I saved a few of these when they were chucked out from my secondary school a few years back. Did a great job for me as my first "laptop" - I remember using it on a Ferry to France plugged into the ship's mains :)
Saturday 17th March 2007
Gerrard Shaw (England)
NAME
NC 200
MANUFACTURER
Amstrad
TYPE
Portable
ORIGIN
United Kingdom
YEAR
October 1993
BUILT IN LANGUAGE
BBC Basic
KEYBOARD
Full-stroke 64 keys
CPU
Z80
SPEED
Unknown
CO-PROCESSOR
Custom all-in-one chip including the CPU, various I/O and memory management
RAM
128 KB
ROM
Unknown
TEXT MODES
80 char x 16 lines
GRAPHIC MODES
480 x 128 pixels
COLORS
bluish grey LCD
SOUND
Beeper
SIZE / WEIGHT
29,5(W) x 21.5(D) x 3.5(H) cm. / 1.280 Kg
I/O PORTS
Parallel Centronics, Serial RS-232
BUILT IN MEDIA
1 MB PCMCIA slot, 3.5'' 720 KB floppy disk drive
OS
BBC BASIC, word processor, diary, calculator, address book, spreadsheet, serial terminal, games in ROM
