NEC APC III

From: Dave Brown <tractorb_at_ihug.co.nz>
Date: Mon Jun 9 06:14:00 2003

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. Ido" <drido_at_optushome.com.au>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 3:00 AM
Subject: Re: NEC APC III


> 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 Mon Jun 09 2003 - 06:14:00 BST