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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YDRjtmAiNpo5mK5N3d7QwZ
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title: Panasonic Senior Partner
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categories:
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- Computers
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types:
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- Transportable
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origins:
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- Japan
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years:
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- '1983'
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cpus:
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- Intel 8088
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params:
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name: Senior Partner
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image: /media/museum/photos/panasonic_senior-partner_2.jpg
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company: /companies/panasonic
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company_name: Panasonic
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specs:
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- label: NAME
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value: Senior Partner
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- label: MANUFACTURER
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value: Panasonic
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- label: TYPE
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value: Transportable
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- label: ORIGIN
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value: Japan
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- label: YEAR
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value: ? 1983
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- label: KEYBOARD
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value: Full-stroke QWERTY keyboard with numeric keypad and function keys
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- label: CPU
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value: Intel 8088
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- label: SPEED
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value: 4.77 Mhz
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- label: CO-PROCESSOR
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value: optional 8087 mathematic co-processor
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- label: RAM
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value: 128 kb (512k max.)
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- label: ROM
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value: 16 kb
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- label: TEXT MODES
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value: 80 x 25
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- label: GRAPHIC MODES
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value: CGA graphics :320 x 200 (4 colors), 640 x 200 (2 colors)
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- label: COLORS
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value: Monochrom (built-in 9 inch CRT green display) and 4 colors (CGA) with external monitor
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- label: SOUND
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value: Beeper ?
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- label: SIZE / WEIGHT
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value: 14 kg
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- label: I/O PORTS
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value: Serial/RS232c, Centronics/Parallel, 1 x ISA expansion slot, RAM expansion slot, RGB monitor ouput
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- label: BUILT IN MEDIA
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value: |-
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Model RL-H7000 : 1 x 360k floppy + optional second floppy\
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Model RL-H7000W : 2 x 360k floppy drives
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- label: OS
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value: MS-DOS 2.0A
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- label: POWER SUPPLY
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value: Built-in PSU. Doesn't work with any fuse less than 20 Amp !...
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- label: PERIPHERALS
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value: Hard-disk
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- label: PRICE
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value: $2495 (USA, november 1983)
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tabs:
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- photos
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- adverts
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- software
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photos:
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- title: SENIOR PARTNER
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/photos/panasonic_senior-partner_1.jpg
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- title: BUILT-IN PRINTER
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subtitle: ''
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text: This thermal printer uses paper-rolls and can print on 80 or 132 columns (8.5'' wide).
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image: /media/museum/photos/panasonic_senior-partner_printer.jpg
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- title: DIRECTORY PRINTING
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/photos/panasonic_senior-partner_printing.jpg
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- title: CLOSED
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subtitle: ''
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text: Once closed the Senior Partner can be easily...err well...transported ?!
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image: /media/museum/photos/panasonic_senior-partner_closed.jpg
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- title: REAR
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subtitle: ''
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text: |-
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Once the door is opened it reveals several connectors and some room to store the power cord.
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From left to right :\
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\- RS232c\
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\- Parallel/Printer\
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\- RGB video out (CGA)\
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\- Power plug\
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\- ON/OFF switch\
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\- Fuse.
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image: /media/museum/photos/panasonic_senior-partner_rear.jpg
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adverts:
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- title: NEW-ZEALAND ADVERT (OCT. 1985)
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subtitle: ''
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text: from Bits & Bytes magazine......
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image: null
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screenshots:
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- title: DIRECTORY LISTING
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subtitle: ''
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text: Apparently this Senior Partner has a hard-disk mounted.
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image: /media/museum/software/panasonic_senior-partner_ss1.jpg
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comments:
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- author: ~Von (United States)
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date: Wednesday 25th May 2022
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text: I friend was cleaning out his basement and passed along his RL-H7000W. It has 2 5 1/4 drives but no HD. Fired right up on DOS 2.11. I''d love to install a hard drive into this. Anyone know if that is possible? I found an ad for one of these and the 7100 model had a whopping 10MB HD in it..
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- author: Diego Romero (Argentina)
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date: Wednesday 29th September 2021
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text: Please ho can give me or if have a link to download a copy of the Boot Disk MS-DOS 2.0 for this computer , thank you!!
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- author: Brian Tristam Williams (South Africa)
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date: Tuesday 28th September 2021
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text: '@Patrick DePalma are you sure you don''''t know where the cable is? It''''s not removable, but it tucks away in a hole next to the screen. The cap for the hole wraps around the cable so it doesn''''t fall back into the recess, but if that snaps, you might find the cable is inside the machine. I, too, thought I had no cable and would have to make one up myself (connector on the keyboard is just a mini-DIN. But when I opened the receptacle, expecting to find a panel-mounted connector, I found the jack attached to a length of curly keyboard cable.'
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- author: Randon (United States)
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date: Wednesday 28th April 2021
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text: Hey Jim M, I just made an image of a good Sr. Partner DOS 2.0B/Basic disk. u/grateparm on reddit
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- author: Jim M (TN USA)
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date: Friday 10th July 2020
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text: If anyone has the original disks for this system I''d love to get in contact with you and archive them for upload!
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- author: Patrick DePalma (United States)
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date: Thursday 13rd June 2019
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text: |-
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I am looking for a cable to connect the keyboard to the computer on my Sr. Partner. I’m the original owner and it kills me that I can’t find the cable.
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Any advice as to where to find one would be appreciated.
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Thanks in advance.
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- author: Jerri Kohl (NEK VT US)
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date: Tuesday 19th June 2018
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text: The description says this supported 640x200x4 colors, but the specs say 640x200x2 colors (CGA standard). I assume the later is the correct spec. What was the video standard and resolution for the built-in screen? Was it 640x200 or was it Hercules or something else?
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- author: Norris Lee grant (Pawley is. S. C. United States )
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date: Tuesday 13rd March 2018
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text: I have a Panasonic panther computer model rl h70000 w I would like to sell that works
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- author: Nanci Glassgow (CA USA )
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date: Sunday 27th April 2014
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text: I bought a brand brand new Panasonic Senior Partner in 1985. Used it in my business. I had a modem installed in it when I bought it. It still works the last time I plugged it in. I have a boot disk.
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- author: Mark (Long Island ny)
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date: Saturday 1st March 2014
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text: I just acquired a functional one but it didn''t have the bootdiscs. Can I just use any 5.25 floppy or do I need specific bootdiscs? Anyone have a copy I could buy?
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- author: chris sitarski (fremont ne usa)
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date: Monday 29th July 2013
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text: Sorry chrissitarski@live.com I''ll right you if you want to buy it
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- author: chris sitarski (fremont ne usa)
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date: Monday 29th July 2013
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text: |-
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I have one good condition I''m selling it it works great any offers\
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chrissitarski@gmail.com
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- author: BillN (FL, USA)
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date: Thursday 25th April 2013
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I have a Panasonic Sr Partner that I purchased new. I have the original shipping box, a carry case and the original receipt. I have been storing it since I could not bring myself to part with this piece of my personal history. I no longer have room for it. Anyone interested?\
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It has not been plugged in for over ten years. I doubt if it works.
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- author: just me (Germany)
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date: Thursday 24th January 2013
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text: Well, bought one in 1986 for half the price, which was then around $2000, including 2 \* 360 KB drives and only MS DOS 2.11$ but i later "repaired" it, by using parts from a Nixdorf clone. I still have it, and i won''t give it away EVER. Was very expensive then, and had to work hard for the money to pay it. I used it to write, play, and be online for the first time in my life with a 300bd modem. I will have to figure out, whether it is still working, because i didn''t use it for some time, but i''ll check out soon :-)
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- author: Corey K (MD, United States)
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date: Friday 4th January 2013
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text: I recently picked one of these up for free. It didn''t include the software though. I''m hoping I come a cross the software somewhere.
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- author: Matt (UK)
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date: Tuesday 14th September 2010
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I grew up using this machine, only it was the Nixdorf version I played games on it, wrote stories on it, and learned DOS on it. And We still have it!
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Brilliant, innovative machine.
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- author: HammerNJ (New Jersey, USA)
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date: Friday 28th May 2010
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text: 'I inherited one of these back in 1985 when our Office computer System got upgraded to a Novell ArcNet LAN with IBM PS/2 25 Workstations. I upgraded it to 10MB Hard drive and 512K as well. Took it home and used it to connect to the first version of Prodigy online. I loved it''''s built-in Modem and Thermal Printer. I learned every DOS command and BASIC on it too. Was tough to use PFS: Write! on it''''s 9" green screen, but I managed! Now my 15 year old is fascinated by all this old stuff. Ny 22 and 25 year old could care less....'
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- author: Ed P (Cleveland, OH)
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date: Thursday 12th January 2006
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text: Bought mine in 1984 when I was living in NJ. Upgraded it to 512K and a 10mb hard drive, mouse, external color monitor. Had lots of software, including something called "Fontrix" that generated all kinds of cool fonts via graphics. Used that to print out large banners on the thermal printer. Learned basic on the SrPtr and actually generated some animation! Sorry to say that I sold it in 1988 or 89 when I upgraded to a Hyundai PC. Wish I still had it for the memories!
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- author: Pam Alt (WV, USA)
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date: Thursday 5th January 2006
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text: I have one of these which was used in a classroom in an elementary school. It was being thrown away by the school, so my family adopted it. My children, now ages 20 and 17, had used it in their 3rd grade classroom for games such as hangman. It had also played many other DOS learning programs. The one which I have does not have a mounted hard drive. Could anyone here let me know how to get the DOS on a 5.25" floppy drive or any programs so that it could be now displayed in the school museum? - Pam (pamalt@direcway.com)
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- author: JP (Germany)
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date: Tuesday 23rd August 2005
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text: At the moment, there is one for sale at ebay.com - Item number 5233962148
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- author: Ken Mc. (Woodstock, GA)
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date: Tuesday 12th July 2005
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I still have mine, and it still works like a champ! This thing made me "bad geek on campus" for about a year in '84. I was able to use Turbo Pascal v2.0 on it to do my class work - I would have never survived simulation and statistics class without it.
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I pull it out of the closet every now and then and play Zaxon on it, etc. I had quite an inventory of software, which I should probably archive off to CD before the old 5.25" floppies degrade completely.
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- author: John Fink (USA)
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date: Thursday 21st April 2005
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text: At one time our company owned two Sr. Partners. We regularly plugged them into 15 amp circuits which has other devices plugged in as well. The Sr. Partner may have been heavy but they didn't draw any more power than an an IBM PC with monitor and printer.
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- author: Philippe Gouin (Québec, Canada)
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date: Wednesday 3rd September 2003
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\> I still have it, and promise to keep it forever. It is like an old friend to me, as I\
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\> learned DOS, and BASIC on it. One of the greatest machines of its time.\
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I feel the same with mine :) I can't help myself, I keep starting it every once in a while :) The sound it makes, the green screen, the feel of the keyboard... It's such a big part of my life, I just can't throw the thing away...
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- author: Oliver W. Leibenguth (Germany)
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date: Wednesday 23rd October 2002
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I got on of these about 2 years ago (mint in unopened box!). It worked great until last week, when it started to garble the screen output :-(\
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It still tries to print text on the screen but you can't read it.... Does anybody know where to start looking for the fault?
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THX,\
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Oliver
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- author: Jim Gall (Belle Mead, New Jersey)
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date: Thursday 26th September 2002
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text: This was the first computer that I ever worked with. My mom bought it two years after it was released in '83. I was born in '86, so I got used to using the system for... 10 years. I still have it, and promise to keep it forever. It is like an old friend to me, as I learned DOS, and BASIC on it. One of the greatest machines of its time. Let alone the built in printer (of which no longer works in my unit).
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oc_id: 498
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source:
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url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230604040220/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=498
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date: '2023-06-04'
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This is a luggable IBM-PC compatible system. It tends to offer an all-in-one solution for the perfect 80's business man. Back in 1983 it was the first Japanese computer completely IBM-PC compatible (hardware & software).
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It has a built-in thermal printer (80/132 columns, 8.5'' wide) using paper-rolls. This was quite useful where you were on the move, but the weight of the whole system is also quite impressive. It is maybe transportable but surely not portable !\
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It was also possible to connect a more sophisticated printer through the Parallel port.\
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There is a 9'' CRT green display built-in along with a brightness control.\
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An interesting feature is that you can also connect the Sr Partner to an external color monitor, thus unleashing the fantastic power of this ultra-modern laptop...err. Maybe not, but you can at least enjoy CGA color graphics (640 x 200 with 4 colors, wow).
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Apparently there were several models with different storage configurations : one 5''1/4 disk-drive (360k), two 5''1/4 disk-drives, one disk-drive and one hard-disk (10Mb, 20Mb)...
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On the original disk, the MS-DOS ver 2.0A and Basic v2.0 were delivered.
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Presented at the Las-Vegas Comdex in november 1983, the Senior Partner was proposed for 2495$ with Wordstar, Visicalc, PFS-File, PFS-Graph, PFS-Report and GW-Basic.
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*Panasonic, along with National and Technics were brands owned by the Matsushita japanese group.*
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