PC-8800 series

This system was produced by NEC in 1979.

This was an early Z80 based computer commonly used in Japan.

The NEC PC8801 was very popular in Japan, though it was never released anywhere else. Despite the fact that it could only display 8 out of 512 colors at the same time, it had a fairly high resolution of 640x480. The place it really shined was in its sound producing capabilities, which at the time were generally poor on other machines. The machine shared quite a few games with the MSX with great companies like Game Arts, Elf, Konami and other large names in the industry today producing games for it. I don't have much information on the internals of the machine or the operating system.

The 10 most common companies to produce software for this system: Enix Champion Soft Pony Canyon T&E Soft Starcraft Taito Ascii Micro Cabin PSK Bothtec

The specs and features of this system are as follows: CPU: PD9002 (Nec V30 - PD7008 Compatible) Memory: 1.5M ROM, 512K RAM Main Z80 CPU: 4MHz(some models has 8MHz version) sub Z80 CPU: 4MHz(for 5'floppy disk drive) 64KB RAM 48KB Video RAM 640x200 8colors or B/W graphics 640x400 B/W graphics(required "high-resolution" display(VSYNC 24KHz)) 80x25 text(alphabet or Kata-kana only, can overlay on graphics) YM-2203 or YM-2608 FM sound -3 FM channels + 3 SSG + 6 rythms + 1 ADPCM-(some models or optional) extended RAM(various size, some models or optional) 5'2D or 5'2HD or 8'2D floppy disk drives(some models or optional) 96KB BASIC ROM Kanji ROM(some models or optional) Kana-Kanji dictionary ROM(some models) RS-232C CD-ROM(some models) printer port