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The original model was based on the NEC V30 microprocessor; the computer includes MS-DOS 3.3 built into ROM. PC Magazine featured the UltraLite on its cover in November 1988 [4] and shortly thereafter journalists began referring to any A4-sized computer as "notebooks", to distinguish them from the larger and heavier laptops of the time. [5]
A NEC Versa 6010H from c. 1996 NEC Mobile Gear II MC/R330 handheld computer running Windows CE 2.0 (Japanese market, 1998) NEC had been the no. 1 personal computer vendor in Japan during the 1980s, but it faced increasing competition from Fujitsu, Seiko Epson and IBM Japan. Nevertheless, by the early 1990s, NEC was still the largest, having ...
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The IBM PC took a more conventional approach, their adaptor card could support up to four drives; on the PC direct memory access (DMA) to the drives was performed using DMA channel 2 and IRQ 6. The diagram below shows a conventional floppy disk controller which communicates with the CPU via an Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) bus or similar ...
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The Japanese NEC Corporation produced several personal computers, including the NEC PC-6001, NEC PC-8801 and NEC PC-9801. Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
The Model 100's later sibling the Tandy 200 was a clam-shell design and smaller than contemporary laptops. The NEC UltraLite, launched in 1988, was the first clamshell "notebook computer" compatible with the IBM PC, a platform whose market share dominated the microcomputer industry throughout the 1980s onward.
The Versa was a line of laptop computers sold by the Japanese electronics conglomerate NEC Corporation from 1993 to 2009. It comprised many form factors of laptops, from conventional clamshell notebooks to pen-enabled convertibles featuring detachable displays, before the line was effectively discontinued in 2009 after NEC pulled out of the global market for personal computers.