I have a mitac laptop here somewhere.... from the 386 days....
ed sharpe
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Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 9:21 PM
Subject: Mitac LIC-2001A Little Intelligent Computer
>
> It's rare that I find a unique and interesting computer these days. This
> Mitac LIC-2001A Little Intelligent Computer is one such. Apparently, it
> was marketed in Japan because it has the Katakana (I think) character set
> painted onto the keycap fronts, but otherwise is a standard QWERTY
> keyboard layout.
>
> The back connectors include:
>
> 1) Power
> 2) Joystick (a 16-pin DIP socket mounted on its side!)
> 3) Tape In
> 4) Tape Out
> 5) TV (the jack of an RF modulator)
> 6) Expansion
> 7) Drive 1
> 8) Drive 2
> 9) Printer
> 10) Monitor (RCA type jack)
> 11) 80 Column (RCA type jack)
>
> Now, as I typed this, I started to sense something familiar, especially
> when I took into account the pin count on the disk drive connectors, and
> especially with the joystick port. I do believe this is an Apple ][+
> clone. I opened it up and it has a 6502 and a Z80 onboard, with three
> ROMs and lots of RAM chips, sort of like many ][+ clones I've seen (I have
> at least a couple or three other ][+ clones with 6502 and Z80 on-board).
>
> I just can't verify this by booting it up because it has a very funky
> power connector which requires an external power supply of some sort
> (which I didn't get with this).
>
> Anyone ever heard of this? The web turns up empty.
>
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