The NEC PC 6001 is the first member of the great NEC PC family. During the 80's and the beginning of the 90's, the big Japanese electronics companies launched several series of computers, they were very powerful and had great features (some of them were costly options or totally non-existent on European or American computers at the time), the FM series from Fujitsu, the JR series from Matsushita (Panasonic), the Pasopia from Toshiba, the Basic Master from Hitachi, the X1 and X680x0 series from Sharp and all the MSX computers are good examples of this.
The NEC PC series was among them, they had a really great success and the later models of this family are still use today.
The NEC PC-6001 also had an American version, called the NEC TREK, or the NEC PC-6001A. Its ROMs are different from its Japanese progenitor.
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Very nice japanese technology
Wednesday 29th October 2014
David
Very nice japanese technology
Wednesday 29th October 2014
David
Hi,
Can you please help me to searching to NEC PC-6001MkII cassete pin out?
Saturday 18th October 2014
Jet Fidelis (Brasil)
NAME
PC 6001
MANUFACTURER
NEC
TYPE
Home Computer
ORIGIN
Japan
YEAR
November 1981
BUILT IN LANGUAGE
Microsoft N60 Basic
KEYBOARD
Chicklet keyboard, 71 keys, JIS standard layout
CPU
PD 780c-1 (compatible with Z80)
SPEED
3.8 MHz
CO-PROCESSOR
M5C6847P-1 video generator (MC6847 compatible)
RAM
16 KB (up to 32 KB)
VRAM
Unknown
ROM
16 KB (Basic) + 4 KB (character ROM)
TEXT MODES
32 x 16
GRAPHIC MODES
256 x 192 / 256 x 128 / 128 x 192 / 128 x 128 / 64 x 48
COLORS
monochrome (256 x 192) / 2 (128 x 192) / 9 (64 x 48)
SOUND
three channels, 8 octaves (General Instruments AY-3-8910)
