--- title: CCE MC 1000 categories: - Computers types: - Home Computer origins: - Brazil years: - '1985' cpus: - Zilog Z80A params: name: MC 1000 company: /companies/cce company_name: CCE specs: - label: NAME value: MC 1000 - label: MANUFACTURER value: CCE - label: TYPE value: Home Computer - label: ORIGIN value: Brazil - label: YEAR value: February 1985 - label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE value: Basic - label: KEYBOARD value: 50 key rubber keyboard - label: CPU value: Zilog Z80A - label: SPEED value: 3.54 MHz - label: CO-PROCESSOR value: Motorola MC 6847 (Graphics) + GI AY-3-8910 (Sound) - label: RAM value: 16 KB (14618 bytes free under Basic), expandable to 64 KB - label: VRAM value: 6 KB - label: ROM value: 16 KB - label: TEXT MODES value: 32 x 16 (80 columns with an external add-on, really another Motorola graphic chip) - label: GRAPHIC MODES value: 128 x 96 (low resolution), 256 x 192 (hi resolution) - label: COLORS value: 4 on low resolution, 2 on hi resolution - label: SOUND value: 3 voices, 7 octaves + 1 noise channel - label: I/O PORTS value: A expansion bus on the back to plug the RAM expansion, the printer port and, if it was delievered, the drive interface. It works like the Sinclair expansion buses. 2 x controller ports. Tape interface. Video output - label: POWER SUPPLY value: External PSU - 9v DC + -o)- - - label: PRICE value: Unknown tabs: - photos - adverts - hardware - emulators - links - docs photos: - title: MC-1000 COLOR COMPUTER subtitle: '' text: '' image: null - title: NICE PICTURE subtitle: '' text: Thanks to www.HomeComputer.de for this picture image: null - title: COMPLETE subtitle: '' text: '' image: null - title: OUT OF THE BOX subtitle: '' text: '' image: null - title: REAR subtitle: '' text: Power in (9v DC + -o )- - ) and expansion bus image: null - title: BOTTOM subtitle: '' text: '' image: null - title: BOX subtitle: '' text: '' image: null - title: 'BOX #2' subtitle: '' text: '' image: null - title: 'BOX #3' subtitle: '' text: '' image: null - title: 'BOX #4' subtitle: '' text: '' image: null adverts: - title: BRAZILIAN ADVERT (1985) subtitle: '' text: Thanks to [Museu da Computação e Informática - MCI](http://www.mci.org.br) for this picture. image: null hardware: - title: DR-1000A subtitle: Tape-recorder text: This is the dedicated tape-recorder for the MC-1000 from CCE. image: null emulators: - title: brMC-1000 url: http://www.700km.com.br/mundobizarro/brmc1000.php platform: Other platform text: The first MC 1000 emulator ever by Ricardo Bittencourt (Java) ! links: - title: CCE MC1000 repository url: https://sites.google.com/site/ccemc1000/home text: Excellent website with a lot of information ! - title: MC-1000 CCE COLOR COMPUTER Facebook group url: https://www.facebook.com/groups/mc1000/ text: '' - title: Segredos do MC-1000 url: http://www.700km.com.br/mundobizarro/mc1000.php text: Brazilian page dedicated to the MC-1000 - title: Victor Trucco MC1000 page url: http://www.victortrucco.com/Diversos/MC1000/MC1000 text: Hardware projects for MC1000 docs: - title: MC1000 - MANUAL DE INSTRUÇÕES E BASIC url: http://www.datacassete.com.br/manuais/mc1000.htm cover: null text: |- [**MC1000 - MANUAL DE INSTRUÇÕES E BASIC**](http://www.datacassete.com.br/manuais/mc1000.htm)written by CCE  compiled/archived by Leonardo R. da Rosa ?\  type of document : PDF\  source : [www.datacassete.com.br](http://www.datacassete.com.br/) comments: - author: Cláudio Sampaio (Brazil) date: Tuesday 13rd October 2020 text: The date is wrong, it was released before 1985. I was gifted that computer in my 11th birthday, which was in november 1984. - author: Claudio H. Picolo date: Saturday 3rd August 2013 text: |- Perhaps Rabbid RX-83 was a prototype project that Rabbid Computer bought from Samsung, but by contract they were unable to sale it on Asia, reason why they shown it on a fair on USA. VDI/GEM was about to make a partnership with Rabbid to produce in Hong Kong to sell it in Belgium in 1984, but CCE possibly appeared with a better offer and bought the entire project to sell it totally remodelled as MC-1000.\ OK... We have no proof that it occurred this way, but is a very good theory.\ Why?\ The dates match, no one knows ANY RX-83 or GEM-1000/Charlemagne user or even exist a ROM dump of these machines anywhere.\ Only the MC-1000 have good documentation, a software library and groups of users, even with all vaporware. - author: Aldrox (Brazil) date: Tuesday 4th December 2012 text: |- I have one of these computers. I was gifted it in 1986. It is still operational and inside its original packaging. It is quite a bizarre computer, indeed. It is for sale... anyone interested? Thx. - author: Emerson José Silveira da Costa (Belém - PA - Brazil) date: Monday 5th September 2011 text: |- Having seen screenshots from a SPC-1000 emulator, it''s not likely that MC-1000 is based on it. The screenshots show that the video processor (MC6847) is wired in a much more complex way in SPC-1000. It uses an external ROM for lower case, some Korean, Chinese, Greek, block drawing $ miscellaneous characters. It mixes MC6847''s alphanumeric and semigraphic modes so that you can have different text colors and coloured block characters in the same screen. In MC-1000 we have only MC6847''s 64 built-in characters, and the video modes are accessed separately. MC-1000''s BASIC is based on Applesoft Basic (from Apple II)$ SPC-1000 is based on Microsoft Basic. SPC-1000 has function keys. MC-1000 has none. Besides the sharing of the processor trio (Z80 + MC6847 + AY-3-8910), the machines seem pretty different to me. - author: Todor DeOliveira (Brazil) date: Thursday 18th August 2005 text: This crazy machine wasn´t equipped with a ON/OFF switch or anything that would allow you to turn it on or off. This operation had to be done by pulling in or out the energy plug from the case, or the whole external PSU from the wall.... - author: Ricardo Bittencourt (Brazil) date: Tuesday 10th August 2004 text: |- I just released the first ever MC-1000 emulator.\ Get it here:\ http://www.700km.com.br/mundobizarro/brmc1000.php oc_id: 331 source: url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230328011755/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=331 date: '2023-03-28' --- What a weird computer !! Though it has a lot of similarities with other computers of that time, it seems to be however an original Brazilian production, a kind of mix between several popular systems. Its name MC-1000 is strangely close to [MC-10](/museum/tandy-radio-shack-mc-10/) from Tandy. It uses the same video-controller (Motorola MC-6847) but Sound chipset (GI AY-3-8910) and CPU (Z80A) are different. The character set is almost identical, but keyboard layout and Basic statements are not the same (PLOT vs SET, LOAD vs CLOAD, HOME vs CLS, etc.) Maybe the closest system would be the [Samsung SPC-1000](/museum/samsung-spc-1000/). It has the same CPU, Video processor and Sound processor ! But sadly nearly nothing is known about it... At first sight it doesn't look the same at all, but internaly there are very close. Finally it is also strangely similar to the [Charlemagne / GEM-1000 / Junior Computer from GEM](/museum/gem-1000-junior-computer-charlemagne-999/), or the [Rabbit RX83 computer](/museum/rabbit-computer-rx83/) which seem to be the same computer... and indeed they are ! A former CCE employee reports ([Source](https://sites.google.com/site/ccemc1000/historia)) that the original design of the MC1000 was Chinese. A Chinese engineer/representative came to Brazil to present the project to CCE. It was not presented as a final product already in production, but as a prototype. Some partnership was effectively established between CCE and the Chinese factory for the production of the MC1000. He was not reverse engineered. There was a lot of development: Hardware adaptations (for PAL-M, for example, or to adapt components), case, keyboard design, visual identity, packaging, software… The engineering staff worked many months to finalize the product. For the ROM, CCE received very little: just the dump and an assembly listing without comments... --- Thanks to Cesar Cardoso for the following information : BACKGROUND ON HISTORY: from 1976 to 1990-1992, Brazil had a market reserve policy on microcomputers and selected computing items, i.e. only Brazilian companies could manufacture these items. But most companies only copied foreign computers and only a small part of it created their own technology, like Scopus and a MS-DOS clone called SISNE. This little monster was a genuine Brazilian computer! CCE was a electronics manufacturer known for their low prices and low quality products. They released [Apple II](/museum/apple-ii/) and PC compatible machines, but developed their own computer, the MC-1000. Hardware-wise, it's close to a [MSX](/museum/msx-1/), with some big project problems (the text mode, unsuitable for something more serious, and the printer port, which was external and sold separately). The most heard word of this computer is "vaporware". CCE made a lot of them for this computer. The biggest of them all: disk drives. Hey, in 1985 disk drives was an essential peripheral of ANY computer - and CCE promised drives. Drives and CP/M - MC-1000 could have been a decent CP/M machine. They promised, promised... and never delivered. So people got tired of waiting and gave up on this computer.
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