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   - title: OKI IF 800
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     text: '"A rainbow in your office"'
     image: /media/museum/pubs/oki_if800_pub-rainbow.jpg
-  comments:
-  - author: Karl Leaning (Auckland New Zealand)
-    date: Sunday 25th March 2012
-    text: I was involved in a project to implement TurbDos on these machines. Yes it did have three blocks of video ram, but it was still one bit per bank, per pixel so you still only have 8 colours. The graphics library supplied supported dithering to create a greater colour palette.
-  - author: Adrian Pearson (USA)
-    date: Wednesday 2nd September 2020
-    text: I found a USA advertisement for this BMC computer in a 1981 issue of Byte magazine. https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-04/page/n117/mode/2up
-  - author: Aleem (Pakistan)
-    date: Friday 4th November 2016
-    text: When I was with Patfinder computers these were introduced and used for training at Comptrain
-  - author: Gary Sharp (Vietnam)
-    date: Saturday 2nd April 2016
-    text: |-
-      Wow, that is a flashback
-
-      I bought 4 of these for the Architecture Faculty of Newcastle University , must be early 1980''s to teach Arch students, Visicalc, Wordperfect $i think$ and basic graphics. I saw them in Japan and when invited to establish a computer studies course asked them to acquire these as they had basic graphics capability and were self contained.
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-      Then told the maths department we no longer needed their IBM360 and punchcards :)
-  - author: Omar Rodriguez (chile)
-    date: Wednesday 25th February 2015
-    text: HELLO! any posibility to conect to usb or something, we have software in floppy and spectometer sps 1500 with 50 pin entry similar to ide entry. we want to continue using the spectometer. Saludos desde Chile.
-  - author: Omar Rodriguez (chile)
-    date: Wednesday 25th February 2015
-    text: |-
-      wath software aply to function in DOS in a ICP AES SPS1500?\
-      THANK
-  - author: Omar rodriguez (chile)
-    date: Thursday 5th February 2015
-    text: |-
-      can i modernize the pc oki if 800 ex 110 f?\
-      i want to fix it\
-      send me please everything about this pc\
-      than you
-  - author: Patrick (Canada)
-    date: Friday 17th December 2010
-    text: I have one. It was my dad''s. I''ll have to give it a good clean up.
-  - author: James Tizard (USA)
-    date: Thursday 11th December 2008
-    text: |-
-      On my first day in my first programming job I was given one of these in its box accompanied by an assembler and two compilers (Pascal $ FORTRAN). My task was to re-write an infra-red imaging and analysis system - and I had a year to do it. For technical documentation I had a blurry printout of the boot ROM.\
-      The system had been bought for its colour graphics capability - and it really worked...you had three blocks of RAM for RGB$ from memory I recall it mapped two bits to each pixel - ie 16 colors, or 4 pixels per byte. To get more colors you could simulate 4 bits per pixel to get 128 colours (although many were identical) at half the pixel resolution. Great fun.\
-      Mine also had a row of programmable function keys under the monitor, which I used to control the main menu of my imaging system.
   oc_id: 94
   source:
     url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230601001458/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=94