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title: NEC PC 9801 F
categories:
- Computers
types:
- Home Computer
origins:
- Japan
years:
- '1983'
cpus:
- i8086-2
params:
  name: PC 9801 F
  company: /companies/nec
  company_name: NEC
  specs:
  - label: NAME
    value: PC 9801 F
  - label: MANUFACTURER
    value: NEC
  - label: TYPE
    value: Home Computer
  - label: ORIGIN
    value: Japan
  - label: YEAR
    value: '1983'
  - label: KEYBOARD
    value: Full-stroke keyboard with separated numeric keypad and arrow keys
  - label: CPU
    value: i8086-2
  - label: SPEED
    value: 8 or 5 Mhz
  - label: RAM
    value: 128 kb (up to 640 kb)
  - label: VRAM
    value: 204 kb
  - label: ROM
    value: N88-Basic + Kanji
  - label: TEXT MODES
    value: 80x25 , 40 x 25 , 80 x 20 , 40 x 20
  - label: GRAPHIC MODES
    value: 640 x 400 with 8 colors. 2 virtual screens
  - label: COLORS
    value: '16'
  - label: SOUND
    value: One channel beeper. Built-in internal speaker
  - label: I/O PORTS
    value: C-Bus
  - label: BUILT IN MEDIA
    value: 2 x 5''1/4 disk-drives
  - label: OS
    value: MS-DOS , N88-Disk Basic (extended Basic for control FDD)
  oc_id: 404
  source:
    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230602175506/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=404
    date: '2023-06-02'
---

The PC-9801 was a very popular PC in Japan. PC-9801's design was very similar to IBM-PC, but was slightly extended. VRAM (Video RAM) is strongly extended from original IBM-PC, enabling it to display kanji characters without bitmap memory (as ASCII characters). But I/O systems, Interrupt systems are almost the same.

There were in fact three models : F1, F2 and F3. Whereas F1 & F2 models have only 128k RAM, the F3 had 256 kb RAM and 10 Mb hard-disk built-in.

More info anyone ?

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Thanks to Nomura Hisayuki for the info