That NEC actually was upgraded to a full 64K (not 32K). You just have to use the "Bank" function in the main menu to switch to the other RAM disk #2. Great retrospective! -- Gary Weber, Web8201
I own two working Tandy 102 machines both with 32K. I currently have one set up with my DMP-136 printer, CCR-82 Cassette recorder, Portable disk drive 2, and a USR 14.4K modem. Now need to try and find a Disk Video Interface for it.
Great video! You forgot to mention the Olivetti M10, as another Kyocera-licensed machine. And the various colors of the Japanese 8201 (blue, red and silver, I think). I learnt assembly on a Model 100 back in the day - 80C85, ftw!. I need to take some time to re-create software for this... Mmm, I wonder if I could scale macflim down enough... :-)
Things I wish I had when I was a kid. Give it a floppy drive attachment and the ability to save to txt and I would have loved it Edit: would love to see a raspberry pi case that does this.
That was a great machine, although i am a bit comfused. I know Bill Gates himself wrote the basic for the Model 100, and for Tandy. Did the NEC ship with different software?
The basic itself is near identical but some calls to the cpu are slightly different. The other software with the system (word proccesor, modem) were all written in house by NEC and are quite different to Tandy's
The NEC has direction keys like a MSX computer. I wonder if that's a left over from it being from the Japanese market where the Microsoft MSX was a common standard
That NEC actually was upgraded to a full 64K (not 32K). You just have to use the "Bank" function in the main menu to switch to the other RAM disk #2.
Great retrospective! -- Gary Weber, Web8201
Bought one back in the day, still have it. It really is a nice machine.
It's really cool that we got a system with such interesting history 😎
That was a great system. I used to own this system along w an external memory module and you could switch between 4 different banks
I remember seeing in ad for this in I think a JCpennys catalog
I own two working Tandy 102 machines both with 32K. I currently have one set up with my DMP-136 printer, CCR-82 Cassette recorder, Portable disk drive 2, and a USR 14.4K modem. Now need to try and find a Disk Video Interface for it.
I liked the video, but I got nuts from "Coldplay Clocks - the non copyright Elevator Edition".
Great video! You forgot to mention the Olivetti M10, as another Kyocera-licensed machine. And the various colors of the Japanese 8201 (blue, red and silver, I think).
I learnt assembly on a Model 100 back in the day - 80C85, ftw!. I need to take some time to re-create software for this... Mmm, I wonder if I could scale macflim down enough... :-)
Gotta leave something for a potential sequel :)
I remember these having a basic editor that it wouldn’t let you exit of if there were any errors.
The Olivetti M10 is the best, it is so stylish and the tilt screen is very useful.
Never heard of this model even though I have a Tandy 102!
Good video!!
Glad we could introduce you to it's interesting cousin!
This system was definitely under the radar in the 80s. Do you remember it at all?
Things I wish I had when I was a kid.
Give it a floppy drive attachment and the ability to save to txt and I would have loved it
Edit: would love to see a raspberry pi case that does this.
That would be sweet!
@@jacobjones9071 frankly I want to stuff a zero w in a case like this to use as a terminal machine.
I’ve already done it 🥱
That was a great machine, although i am a bit comfused. I know Bill Gates himself wrote the basic for the Model 100, and for Tandy. Did the NEC ship with different software?
The basic itself is near identical but some calls to the cpu are slightly different. The other software with the system (word proccesor, modem) were all written in house by NEC and are quite different to Tandy's
The NEC probably also has Katakana/Hiragana in the character positions 160-255.
That was modem support, not modern support
Have you used any of these models based on the same platform?
The NEC has direction keys like a MSX computer. I wonder if that's a left over from it being from the Japanese market where the Microsoft MSX was a common standard
no
This is older than MSX.