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Panasonic JR-200U	Computers	Home Computer	U.S.A.	1983	MN 1800A	name image company company_name specs tabs photos adverts hardware screenshots emulators links comments related oc_id source JR-200U /media/museum/photos/panasonic_jr-200u_system_1.jpg /companies/panasonic Panasonic label value NAME JR-200U label value MANUFACTURER Panasonic label value TYPE Home Computer label value ORIGIN U.S.A. label value YEAR January 1983 label value END OF PRODUCTION 1984 label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE JR Basic 5.0 label value KEYBOARD Chicklet keyboard with basic statements printed on the keys, 64 keys label value CPU MN 1800A (6802 compatible) label value SPEED Unknown label value CO-PROCESSOR MN1544 label value RAM 36kb (32k + 2k for graphic characters + 2k VRAM) label value VRAM 2 kb label value ROM 16 kb label value TEXT MODES 32 x 24 label value GRAPHIC MODES 64 x 48 label value COLORS 8 label value SOUND 3 voices, 5 octaves label value SIZE / WEIGHT 348 × 208 × 56 mm / 1,7 Kg label value I/O PORTS Composite video out, RF video out, RGB video out, Expansion bus, Tape (600/2400 bauds), RS-232c/printer port, External speaker label value BUILT IN MEDIA None label value POWER SUPPLY AC100V 50/60Hz, 8w label value PERIPHERALS JR-F11 floppy disk-drive, JR-U07 Joystick interface, JR-U05 RS232 interface, JR-PO1 Centronics interface label value PRICE $349.95 (USA, march 1983) photos adverts hardware software emulators links title subtitle text image REAR CONNECTORS /media/museum/photos/panasonic_jr-200u_back_1.jpg title subtitle text image US ADVERT /media/museum/pubs/panasonic_jr-200u_pub_s1.jpg title subtitle text image F-01 DISK-DRIVE 5''1/4 floppies /media/museum/hardware/national_jr200_f01_1.jpg title subtitle text image BOOT SCREEN Basic /media/museum/software/panasonic_jr200_basic_ss.gif title subtitle text image DEMO TAPE JR-200 title /media/museum/software/matsushita_jr200_jr200-2_ss.gif title subtitle text image DEMO TAPE 3D graph display /media/museum/software/matsushita_jr200_3d_ss.gif title subtitle text image DEMO TAPE Color graph display /media/museum/software/matsushita_jr200_color-graph_ss.gif title subtitle text image DEMO TAPE Color graph display #2 /media/museum/software/matsushita_jr200_color-graph2_ss.gif title subtitle text image DEMO TAPE Color demo /media/museum/software/matsushita_jr200_colors_ss.gif title subtitle text image DEMO TAPE Color sample /media/museum/software/matsushita_jr200_color-sample_ss.gif title subtitle text image DEMO TAPE Panasonic JR200 /media/museum/software/matsushita_jr200_jr200_ss.gif title subtitle text image DEMO TAPE Merry go 'round /media/museum/software/matsushita_jr200_manege_ss.gif title subtitle text image DEMO TAPE Panasonic Home Computer /media/museum/software/matsushita_jr200_schema_ss.gif title subtitle text image BREAKING BLOCK /media/museum/software/panasonic_jr200_breakingblock_ss.gif title subtitle text image COSMIC PATROL /media/museum/software/panasonic_jr200_cosmic-patrol_ss.gif title subtitle text image CRAZY MAZEY /media/museum/software/panasonic_jr200_crazy-mazey_ss.gif title subtitle text image GEOGRAPHY EXPLORER USA /media/museum/software/panasonic_jr200_geography-explorer_ss.gif title subtitle text image SANTA PARAVIA /media/museum/software/panasonic_jr200_santa-paravia_ss.gif title subtitle text image VORTEX /media/museum/software/panasonic_jr200_vortex_ss.gif title url platform text Virtual Panasonic JR-200U http://www.geocities.com/emucompboy/ Windows Thanks to James the Animal Tamer , there is now a JR200 emulator ! title url text Armchair Arcade Covers the PPC JR-200U http://www.armchairarcade.com/neo/node/1598 Excellent article from Armchair Arcade, very detailed title url text Matsushita JR Museum http://dec.sakura.ne.jp/~hayashi/jr/index.html A japanese virtual museum dedicated to the JR computers ! author date text Marq (Finland) Sunday 28th September 2014 The Service Manual is now available at Vintage Volts. All in all, a lot more has been discovered about the machine. My current guess is that the CPU runs at 1.366 MHz. author date text Lance Lindell (United States) Sunday 17th November 2013 Hello, I want to let enthusiasts know that there is currently a mint Panasonic JR-200U listed on eBay by user ID seattlegoodwill. They are very reputable and seem to always have a good stock of "old computers." Save it from the landfill! Lance author date text Marq (Helsinki, Finland) Friday 16th March 2012 I''ve been trying to hack the JR-200UP for some time now and have discovered a thing or two (the technical manual WOULD have been a nice addition...) See the findings here: http://www.kameli.net/marq/?page_id$1270 author date text Robert Saler (Toronto, CANADA) Tuesday 11th October 2011 This message is for J. Mitch Hopper - I recently bought a Panasonic JR-200 but with no manuals. Cute little computer, but I am going to need manuals to figure anything out.\ I see from the postings that you have docs - could you please email them to me at robert.saler@gmail.com.\ Cant do anything without them - sorry for the trouble.\ Thanks - Robert author date text Clocky (Australia) Thursday 22nd September 2011 I have a JR-200U and need any information I can find, could you please email me the manual to clockmeister@internode.on.net J. Mitch Hopper? Thanks in advance. author date text J. Mitch Hopper Wednesday 17th August 2011 Note to athansoft:\ Alas, I forgot to send you the manual. Very sorry for the delay. Just sent it. author date text athansoft Thursday 27th January 2011 My email is athansoft@hotmail.com. Thank you J. Mitch Hopper. I am waiting for your pdf files author date text J. Mitch Hopper Thursday 20th January 2011 I have manuals. If you want them, post a message here with contact info. I will email the PDF on request. author date text athansoft (Greece) Tuesday 18th January 2011 I have a Panasonic JR-200UP but without manuals. Could anyone sent me photocopies or pdf file of it and I''ll pay him. Thank you author date text J. Mitch Hopper Sunday 8th August 2010 I have a JR-200 new-in-the-box with manuals. Looking over the detailed memory map,I see that it is exactly the same as the Radio Shack CoCo - right down to the free, unassigned space. author date text Michael (United States) Sunday 22nd December 2002 For the most in-depth information available on the JR-200u visit: http://home.kc.rr.com/vintagecomputers/index.html author date text James the Animal Tamer (Internet) Saturday 6th April 2002 Emulator resides on\ www.geocities.com/emucompboy I'd need the technical or development docs to make the emulator better. author date text Hafthor Stefansson (Earth) Friday 29th March 2002 I still have an old Panasonic JR-200U that I bought from J&R Music World in\ NY in 1984 or so. For the day, it was actually a pretty nice little machine.\ 32KB, better graphics than the CoCo, but still not very good, a Motorola\ 6802 processor, fairly decent sound, an independent timer (which is how it\ ended up as a fancy alarm clock for me for a couple of years). I didn't get any peripherals with it, but I did have the cassette cable and used a crappy little Radio Shack cassette recorder to save/load my programs. I had no software except for the stuff I wrote myself, but it was still a great first computer. I never really figured out how the MON debug monitor thingy worked.\ Also, I never got a real owners manual. When J&R shipped it to me, it was missing the manual all together. After several phone calls, they agreed to send one. What I got was a Xerox copy of the manual. That kinda sucked, but\ it worked. /museum/matsushita-national-jr-200 553 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230609170048/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=553 2023-06-09

This computer is the same as the Matsushita JR-200U.

Two years in the making, the Panasonic JR-200 computer was officially announced in January of 1983, with additional launch dates provided for the computer and peripherals. The JR-200u received early and strong support from two software publishing companies; Data-Most and Walt Disney Telecommunications. Having the support of both of these companies, especially Data-Most, was crucial in Panasonic's strategy to successfully market this computer, as well as it's plans to have 30 software titles available by the official launch in the spring of 1983. Additionally, Panasonic planned for an additional 24 titles to become available by mid-summer of 1983 by consulting with other software developers.

From the start, the Panasonic JR-200u was never meant to be a cartridge based machine. Panasonic had other plans for a cartridge based system which never materialized. Initially, software was to be developed first on cassette tapes, and later floppy disks.