NEC APC III

From: Dr. Ido <drido_at_optushome.com.au>
Date: Sun Jun 8 11:05:00 2003

At 09:04 PM 6/8/03 +1000, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
> Been doing some more scrounging from the curbside, found an NEC APC
>III. I thought at first it was just an XT style computer, but closer
>inspection showed it was at least a little more unusual than that. The whole
>inside of the system is filled up with descrete component boards pluged
into a
>coman bus system. I asume this is memory expansion, HDD and FDD drive. It was
>significantly diferant from the standard XT hardware that I considered it was
>at least worth a second look. If some one could give me some more info or
>direct me to some long forgoten site with details of this machine I would
>apreciate it. Otherwise I'll just "throw it on the pile" and keep it around
>for good looks......
>
> Peter T.

I have a couple of them without keyboards so I can't do much with them.
It's MS-DOS based, but not PC compatible. 8Mhz 8086,
640x400 color display. Mine have 720KB 5.25" floppy drives and 10MB hard
disks. They did release a PC emulator card for them, but I don't think it
worked that well.

Here in Australia they were quite popular is pharamacies. I think some
company supplied a complete system consisting of the APC III, 2 printers
and the pharamacy software preloaded. From memory there was an early
version of autocad that supported it's hires display.

I think it's related to the PC9801 (only sold in Japan). I have a 75Mhz
Pentium based NEC 9821 and it appears to have the same slots as the APC III.
Received on Sun Jun 08 2003 - 11:05:00 BST