Owner: Charles P. Hobbs
Location: Canoga Park, CA
I love these obscure 8-bits. According to the owner:
This is a picture of a NEC PC-6001A I bought at a local
flea market (for less than $10) about four years ago. This
computer was on the market around 1981-2 or so, but was never
distributed widely in the U.S.
The computer as shown has 8K of ram, plus built in
Microsoft BASIC. I don't think it has dot-addressable
graphics, but it does have color TV output and a set of line
drawing characters (plus a small selection of other special
characters, accessed by pressing the "ALT CHAR" key
on the keyboard). It also has a three-voice sound generator
(similar to TI-99/4A, MSX, etc.) and a built-in speaker,
accessible from BASIC.
The PC-6001A can also accept programs on ROM cartridges,
one of which is shown. There's also a cassette jack, and
another port on the back of the machine for other peripherals
(disk drives? printer?)
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