[vcf-midatlantic] IBM PC near-compatibles

[Jonathan Gevaryahu]

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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