an odd PC seen in a thrift store (?)

[Chuck Guzis]

On 3/1/2006 at 2:40 AM Tim Riker wrote:

>I did software development on some of these models back around 1990. All
>the M$ tools were available for them, but only from Japanese dealers and
>only in Japanese.

There was an outpost of NEC down in southern California that handled
developer relations for the NEC 9800 series.  I don't recall their name (I
can find out), but it wasn't NEC, but they could get you anything you
wanted (for a price).

Cheers,
Chuck