[vcf-midatlantic] IBM PC near-compatibles
Jonathan Gevaryahu
jgevaryahu at gmail.com
Sun Oct 29 13:42:18 EDT 2017
I'm actually looking to borrow the UPD1771C-006 chip out of a NEC APC at
some point; it is actually a weird, sound/speech provider
microcontroller with mask rom, used for making the system beeps/melodies
on the NEC APC, and is important to get dumped for emulation purposes.
It can be dumped non-destructively (it has a test mode where it spits
out its rom contents if you hold two pins in a particular configuration).
On 10/25/2017 2:27 PM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> On 10/25/2017 12:26 PM, Earl Baugh via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
>> Following up on two things. I have a NEC machine (nicknamed the
>> "Herniator" because of it's weight) that came to me via Kyle
>> that is a PC near compatible that has 8 inch drives. Runs MS-DOS. It at
>> least, I'd say, is a little interesting.
>> I don't know of many other MS-DOS compatible machines that ran off 8 inch
>> floppy.
> That would be a NEC APC, which is a fantastic machine. It was aimed
> squarely at the CAD market, and had very high-end graphics capabilities
> for the time, built around a NEC 7220 graphics controller.
>
> I have one of those machines, but it has an as-yet-undiagnosed
> hardware problem. I hope to get it running someday.
>
>> And in theme with Herb's kerosene powered fan, I actually own a gasoline
>> powered clothes iron.
>> Looks like a regular small iron but is gasoline powered. Seriously.
> Neat!
>
> -Dave
>
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Jonathan Gevaryahu
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