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title: NEC PC 6001
categories:
- Computers
types:
- Home Computer
origins:
- Japan
years:
- '1981'
cpus:
- PD 780c-1
params:
name: PC 6001
image: /media/museum/photos/nec_pc6001.jpg
company: /companies/nec
company_name: NEC
specs:
- label: NAME
value: PC 6001
- label: MANUFACTURER
value: NEC
- label: TYPE
value: Home Computer
- label: ORIGIN
value: Japan
- label: YEAR
value: November 1981
- label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE
value: Microsoft N60 Basic
- label: KEYBOARD
value: Chicklet keyboard, 71 keys, JIS standard layout
- label: CPU
value: PD 780c-1 (compatible with Z80)
- label: SPEED
value: 3.8 MHz
- label: CO-PROCESSOR
value: M5C6847P-1 video generator (MC6847 compatible)
- label: RAM
value: 16 KB (up to 32 KB)
- label: VRAM
value: Unknown
- label: ROM
value: 16 KB (Basic) + 4 KB (character ROM)
- label: TEXT MODES
value: 32 x 16
- label: GRAPHIC MODES
value: 256 x 192 / 256 x 128 / 128 x 192 / 128 x 128 / 64 x 48
- label: COLORS
value: monochrome (256 x 192) / 2 (128 x 192) / 9 (64 x 48)
- label: SOUND
value: three channels, 8 octaves (General Instruments AY-3-8910)
- label: SIZE / WEIGHT
value: Unknown
- label: I/O PORTS
value: Tape (600 / 1200 baud), RGB, Centronics, Joystick (2), ROM/RAM cartridges, Audio
- label: PERIPHERALS
value: Unknown
- label: PRICE
value: Unknown
tabs:
- photos
- adverts
- hardware
- software
- emulators
photos:
- title: PC-6001
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/photos/nec_pc6001_extension.jpg
- title: 'PC-6001 #2'
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/photos/nec_pc6001_3.jpg
- title: PC-6001A "NEC-TREK"
subtitle: ''
text: |-
This improved version of the 6001 was marketed in the USA as the "NEC Trek" computer.\
Some versions were bundled with joysticks, thermal printer, cassette recorder, monitor, disk drive, "expander," and some other goodies for $350.
image: /media/museum/photos/nec_pc6001a_system_s1.jpg
- title: REAR
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/photos/nec_pc6001_rear.jpg
- title: KEYBOARD
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/photos/nec_pc6001_keyboard_1.jpg
- title: LEATHER COVER
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/photos/nec_pc6001_leather-cover_1.jpg
- title: BASIC CART & RAM EXPANSION
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/photos/nec_pc6001_docs-et-carts.jpg
- title: THE BOX
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/photos/nec_pc6001_2.jpg
adverts:
- title: NICE AD (1983)
subtitle: ''
text: |-
As computing was a serious and professional subject, the humorus adverts was rare in 1983.\
This one said:
When I told my Dad about NEC TREK, NEC's new personal computer, he wanted one right away.
I told him it has 10 programmable function keys; high powered graphic capabilities, powerful Microsoft BASIC included, and a 8-octave programmable musical tone generator.
He said it has lot of 'fun games'.
I told him how its memory storage can interface with cassette diskette or cartridge, and how it has a wide variety of of sophisticated software available - important things like financial management package...
He just challenged me to a game of Protector.
That's my Dad. I love him, but sometimes I wish he could understand how a kid feels.
image: /media/museum/pubs/nec_pc6001_pub_1.jpg
hardware:
- title: PC-6006
subtitle: RAM expansion
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/nec_pc6001_ram-rom_cart.jpg
- title: PC-6006
subtitle: inside
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/nec_pc6001_6006-inside.jpg
- title: SERIAL RS232 EXPANSION
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/nec_pc6001_rs232_600.jpg
- title: SPEECH SYNTESIZER
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/nec_pc6001_synthe_vocal_600.jpg
- title: JOYSTICK
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/joystick_600.jpg
- title: DUAL 5.25'' FLOPPY DRIVES UNIT
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/nec_pc6001_disk_600.jpg
- title: VIDEO RECORDER INTERFACE
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/nec_pc6001_scope_600.jpg
- title: GRAPHIC PAD
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/nec_pc6001_tablette_600.jpg
- title: DOT-MATRIX PRINTER
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/printer_600.jpg
- title: 4-COLOUR PRINTER-PLOTTER
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/nec_pc6001_tracante2_600.jpg
- title: THERMAL PRINTER
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/nec_pc6001_tracante_600.jpg
screenshots:
- title: BOOT SCREEN
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/software/nec_pc6001_boot.jpg
emulators:
- title: PC6001v
url: http://yumitaro.pobox.ne.jp/P6/index.html
platform: MS DOS
text: Japanese emulator
- title: IP6WIN
url: http://www02.so-net.ne.jp/~m-moriya/
platform: Windows
text: Japanese emulator
- title: Virtual NEC Trek
url: http://www.geocities.com/emucompboy/
platform: Windows
text: An emulator for the NEC Trek (aka NEC PC-6001A) by James the Animal Tamer!
comments:
- author: David
date: Wednesday 29th October 2014
text: Very nice japanese technology
- author: David
date: Wednesday 29th October 2014
text: Very nice japanese technology
- author: Jet Fidelis (Brasil)
date: Saturday 18th October 2014
text: |-
Hi,
Can you please help me to searching to NEC PC-6001MkII cassete pin out?
- author: DataPro (France)
date: Thursday 10th November 2011
text: Is it true that the Sanyo PHC-25 is Nec PC-6001 compatible ?
- author: Reini (Austria)
date: Monday 2nd July 2007
text: |-
Hi,\
I am searching the game Out Run for the NEC PC-6001 released in the year 1986.\
Can you please help me to find a Rom dump of this famous racing game to use it on a emulator?
oc_id: 177
source:
url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230605044139/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=177
date: '2023-06-05'
---
The NEC PC 6001 is the first member of the great NEC PC family. During the 80's and the beginning of the 90's, the big Japanese electronics companies launched several series of computers, they were very powerful and had great features (some of them were costly options or totally non-existent on European or American computers at the time), the [FM series from Fujitsu](/museum/fujitsu-fm-7/), the [JR series from Matsushita](/museum/matsushita-national-jr-100/) (Panasonic), the [Pasopia from Toshiba](/museum/toshiba-pasopia/), the [Basic Master from Hitachi](/museum/hitachi-mb-6885-basic-master-jr/), the [X1](/museum/sharp-x1-cz-800c/) and [X680x0 series](/museum/sharp-x68000/) from Sharp and all the [MSX computers](/museum/msx-1/) are good examples of this.
The NEC PC series was among them, they had a really great success and the later models of this family are still use today.
The NEC PC-6001 also had an American version, called the **NEC TREK**, or the **NEC PC-6001A**. Its ROMs are different from its Japanese progenitor.