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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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239 lines
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title: Panasonic JR-200U
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categories:
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- Computers
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types:
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- Home Computer
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origins:
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- U.S.A.
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years:
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- '1983'
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cpus:
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- MN 1800A
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params:
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name: JR-200U
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image: /media/museum/photos/panasonic_jr-200u_system_1.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: JR-200U
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- label: MANUFACTURER
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value: Panasonic
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- label: TYPE
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value: Home Computer
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- label: ORIGIN
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value: U.S.A.
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- label: YEAR
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value: January 1983
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- label: END OF PRODUCTION
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value: '1984'
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- label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE
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value: JR Basic 5.0
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- label: KEYBOARD
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value: Chicklet keyboard with basic statements printed on the keys, 64 keys
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- label: CPU
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value: MN 1800A (6802 compatible)
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- label: SPEED
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value: Unknown
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- label: CO-PROCESSOR
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value: MN1544
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- label: RAM
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value: 36kb (32k + 2k for graphic characters + 2k VRAM)
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- label: VRAM
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value: 2 kb
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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: 32 x 24
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- label: GRAPHIC MODES
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value: 64 x 48
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- label: COLORS
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value: '8'
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- label: SOUND
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value: 3 voices, 5 octaves
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- label: SIZE / WEIGHT
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value: 348 × 208 × 56 mm / 1,7 Kg
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- label: I/O PORTS
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value: Composite video out, RF video out, RGB video out, Expansion bus, Tape (600/2400 bauds), RS-232c/printer port, External speaker
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- label: BUILT IN MEDIA
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value: None
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- label: POWER SUPPLY
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value: AC100V 50/60Hz, 8w
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- label: PERIPHERALS
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value: JR-F11 floppy disk-drive, JR-U07 Joystick interface, JR-U05 RS232 interface, JR-PO1 Centronics interface
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- label: PRICE
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value: $349.95 (USA, march 1983)
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tabs:
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- photos
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- adverts
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- hardware
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- software
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- emulators
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- links
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photos:
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- title: REAR CONNECTORS
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/photos/panasonic_jr-200u_back_1.jpg
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adverts:
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- title: US ADVERT
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/pubs/panasonic_jr-200u_pub_s1.jpg
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hardware:
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- title: F-01 DISK-DRIVE
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subtitle: 5''1/4 floppies
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/hardware/national_jr200_f01_1.jpg
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screenshots:
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- title: BOOT SCREEN
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subtitle: Basic
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/panasonic_jr200_basic_ss.gif
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- title: DEMO TAPE
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subtitle: JR-200 title
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/matsushita_jr200_jr200-2_ss.gif
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- title: DEMO TAPE
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subtitle: 3D graph display
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/matsushita_jr200_3d_ss.gif
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- title: DEMO TAPE
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subtitle: Color graph display
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/matsushita_jr200_color-graph_ss.gif
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- title: DEMO TAPE
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subtitle: 'Color graph display #2'
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/matsushita_jr200_color-graph2_ss.gif
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- title: DEMO TAPE
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subtitle: Color demo
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/matsushita_jr200_colors_ss.gif
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- title: DEMO TAPE
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subtitle: Color sample
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/matsushita_jr200_color-sample_ss.gif
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- title: DEMO TAPE
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subtitle: Panasonic JR200
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/matsushita_jr200_jr200_ss.gif
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- title: DEMO TAPE
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subtitle: Merry go 'round
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/matsushita_jr200_manege_ss.gif
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- title: DEMO TAPE
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subtitle: Panasonic Home Computer
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/matsushita_jr200_schema_ss.gif
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- title: BREAKING BLOCK
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/panasonic_jr200_breakingblock_ss.gif
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- title: COSMIC PATROL
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/panasonic_jr200_cosmic-patrol_ss.gif
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- title: CRAZY MAZEY
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/panasonic_jr200_crazy-mazey_ss.gif
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- title: GEOGRAPHY EXPLORER USA
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/panasonic_jr200_geography-explorer_ss.gif
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- title: SANTA PARAVIA
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/panasonic_jr200_santa-paravia_ss.gif
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- title: VORTEX
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/software/panasonic_jr200_vortex_ss.gif
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emulators:
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- title: Virtual Panasonic JR-200U
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url: http://www.geocities.com/emucompboy/
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platform: Windows
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text: Thanks to James the Animal Tamer , there is now a JR200 emulator !
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links:
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- title: Armchair Arcade Covers the PPC JR-200U
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url: http://www.armchairarcade.com/neo/node/1598
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text: Excellent article from Armchair Arcade, very detailed
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- title: Matsushita JR Museum
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url: http://dec.sakura.ne.jp/~hayashi/jr/index.html
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text: A japanese virtual museum dedicated to the JR computers !
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comments:
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- author: Marq (Finland)
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date: Sunday 28th September 2014
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text: 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.
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- author: Lance Lindell (United States)
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date: Sunday 17th November 2013
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text: 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
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- author: Marq (Helsinki, Finland)
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date: Friday 16th March 2012
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text: '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'
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- author: Robert Saler (Toronto, CANADA)
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date: Tuesday 11th October 2011
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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.\
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I see from the postings that you have docs - could you please email them to me at robert.saler@gmail.com.\
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Cant do anything without them - sorry for the trouble.\
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Thanks - Robert
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- author: Clocky (Australia)
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date: Thursday 22nd September 2011
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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?
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Thanks in advance.
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- author: J. Mitch Hopper
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date: Wednesday 17th August 2011
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Note to athansoft:\
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Alas, I forgot to send you the manual. Very sorry for the delay. Just sent it.
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- author: athansoft
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date: Thursday 27th January 2011
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text: My email is athansoft@hotmail.com. Thank you J. Mitch Hopper. I am waiting for your pdf files
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- author: J. Mitch Hopper
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date: Thursday 20th January 2011
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text: I have manuals. If you want them, post a message here with contact info. I will email the PDF on request.
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- author: athansoft (Greece)
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date: Tuesday 18th January 2011
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text: 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
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- author: J. Mitch Hopper
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date: Sunday 8th August 2010
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text: 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.
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- author: Michael (United States)
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date: Sunday 22nd December 2002
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text: 'For the most in-depth information available on the JR-200u visit: http://home.kc.rr.com/vintagecomputers/index.html'
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- author: James the Animal Tamer (Internet)
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date: Saturday 6th April 2002
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Emulator resides on\
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www.geocities.com/emucompboy
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I'd need the technical or development docs to make the emulator better.
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- author: Hafthor Stefansson (Earth)
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date: Friday 29th March 2002
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text: |-
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I still have an old Panasonic JR-200U that I bought from J&R Music World in\
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NY in 1984 or so. For the day, it was actually a pretty nice little machine.\
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32KB, better graphics than the CoCo, but still not very good, a Motorola\
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6802 processor, fairly decent sound, an independent timer (which is how it\
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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.\
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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\
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it worked.
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related:
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- /museum/matsushita-national-jr-200
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oc_id: 553
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source:
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url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230609170048/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=553
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date: '2023-06-09'
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This computer is the same as the [Matsushita JR-200U](/museum/matsushita-national-jr-200/).
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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.
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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.
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