The NC150 hybrid was an NC200 in the body of an NC100.
It offered 128KB of memory and an interface for connecting a floppy disk drive. However, it was only sold in France and Italy. But the NC100 and NC200 "form factors" appear to have lived on in the shape of the Brainium DreamWriter 450 and 500, portable machines aimed at the US education market.
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The first NTS Dreamwriter, the Dreamwriter 225 is actually a rebadged NC100 with rom version 1.06.
Next models have Nec V20 processors instead of Z80 and different applications on rom.
Dreamwriter 500 is supposed to be a NC200 with V20 processor and backlit screen.
Tuesday 7th April 2015
Robcfg (Spain)
NAME
NC 150
MANUFACTURER
Amstrad
TYPE
Portable
ORIGIN
United Kingdom
YEAR
April 1993
BUILT IN LANGUAGE
BBC Basic
KEYBOARD
Full-stroke 64 keys
CPU
Z80
SPEED
Unknown
CO-PROCESSOR
Custom NEC chip (I/O, memory management)
RAM
128 KB
ROM
Unknown
TEXT MODES
80 char x 8 lines
GRAPHIC MODES
480 x 64 pixels
COLORS
bluish grey LCD
SOUND
Beeper
SIZE / WEIGHT
29,5(W) x 21(D) x 2,8(H) cm. / 1 Kg
I/O PORTS
Parallel Centronics, Serial RS-232
BUILT IN MEDIA
1 MB PCMCIA slot
OS
BBC BASIC, word processor, diary, calculator, address book, serial terminal, games in ROM
