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NEC PC 6001 MK 2 SR	Computers	Home Computer	Japan	1984	PD 780C-1	name company company_name specs tabs photos hardware comments oc_id source PC 6001 MK 2 SR /companies/nec NEC label value NAME PC 6001 MK 2 SR label value MANUFACTURER NEC label value TYPE Home Computer label value ORIGIN Japan label value YEAR ? 1984 label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE Basic N66 & N66SR label value KEYBOARD Full-stroke keyboard, JIS standard layout, 64 keys, 5 function keys, 4 cursor keys, kana letter key label value CPU PD 780C-1 (Z80 clone) label value SPEED 3.58 Mhz label value CO-PROCESSOR 6847 et 6845 graphic chipsets, ìPD8049 (I/O management) label value RAM 64 KB label value ROM 32 KB (N66SR Basic) + 32 KB (N66 Basic) + 16 KB (graphic characters) + 32 KB (Chinese characters ROM) + 32 KB (optional speech synthesis) label value TEXT MODES 32 x 16, 40 x 20, 40 x 25, 80 x 20, 80 x 25 label value GRAPHIC MODES 64 x 48, 128 x 192, 160 x 200, 256 x 192, 320 x 200 (15 colors), 640 x 200 (4 colors) label value COLORS 15 colors max. label value SOUND Speaker built-in, sound generator (3 voices, 8 octaves)\ optional speech synthesizer (2 voices) label value SIZE / WEIGHT 368 x 87 x 285 mm / 3.3 Kg label value I/O PORTS Cartridge slot, joysticks, Centronics, printer connector, RGB video output, Sound output, RS-232c, Expansion bus, floppy disk interface label value POWER SUPPLY AC100V±10% 50/60Hz, 25w label value PRICE 89 800 yen (Japan, 1984) photos hardware title subtitle text image SYSTEM null title subtitle text image BOX null title subtitle text image TAPE RECORDER null author date text Hasan Salim (iraq) Thursday 12th January 2023 This was my first computer. My father bought it to me back in 1990. The system includes the NEC 6001mkII computer, cassette recorder, 3.5 floppy drive, 4-color plotter, joystick, and a monitor. I learned BASIC with it and also used it later to do machine language programming on it''s Z80 processor. author date text Sal (NZ) Tuesday 12th May 2020 Please update sound section to mention that this computer also has an FM chip and an additional 3 channels of music playback. Details: PC-6001 Mk2 SR also has an FM synth accessible in N66SR BASIC, specifically: Yamaha YM2203. It allows playback of 3 additional channels for FM instruments/sounds bringing the total to 6 channels of music playback. Here''s a video captured of music playback on this computer that use both PSG and FM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v$zvVq8MHoybA Playing both PSG and FM was as simple as using the play command with 6 arguments: $PLAY "cde","fga","cge","@3cde","@5fga","@7cge"$ The "@" char is used for FM channels to specify instrument out of 12 preset instruments or using a custom instrument out of a few available slots. Cheers 394 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230608083532/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=394 2023-06-08

This is another enhanced version of the original PC-6001 and later PC-6001 MK2.

Two Basics languages (N66 & N66SR) are built-in. The computer is still compatible with the N60-Basic and N60-Extended Basic modes from the original PC-6001. The Basic N66 offers a 320x200 graphic mode (in 4 colors) and the new N66SR-Basic offers new text and graphic resolutions, the maximum being 640x200 with 15 colors.

There is a ROM holding 1024 chinese characters. The PC-6001 MK2 SR offers optional speech synthesis features.

There were 2 floppy disk drive types that were incompatible with each other, known as B and BE.

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