And they brought over their PC-88 business users by ensuring that BASIC was backwards compatible, even as Microsoft wanted to move to the incompatible GW-BASIC. In Japan, the famous saying about IBM could be said instead “Nobody ever got fired for buying NEC”. Why did NEC succeed where so many failed? With Intel’s 8086 line of processors (or occasionally an NEC in-house clone), they fall into a category of computer that died very quickly in the west: PCs that were MS-DOS compatible, but not IBM compatible. Instead, it gets its name as it was the successor to NEC’s PC-8800 series, which in turn was an upgraded version of their PC-8000 8-bit line. The PC-9800 series wasn’t named for the year it dates back to 1982. ![]() A gift to the blog, courtesy of the Doors and Dungeons Podcast! Let’s… clean keyboards and debug sound card issues? A machine in transition And now I have one! Let’s take a look, figure out what it’s deal is, and try to do something on it. But did you know? NEC didn’t just make engines for PCs, they made PCs themselves too.
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