User:Topkick88

I bought an NEC PC8000 some time in the mid 70's while stationed in Germany through the military Exchange Catalog. What a joy. While most computer users were in town, copying Apple files to "enjoy" on their all caps, green text screens, I have a color monitor with upper and lower case letters. My word processor (Select) has Bolding, Underline, Highliting, variable font size and more. Sounds almost like what we expect from programs today.

Additionally, the PC8000 boots in NBasic. A young Bill Gates had gone to Japan and convinced NEC to put his new creation into ROM. My system has two 8 1/2 in.(?) disk drives, a whopping 128K of memory and came with the PC8023 dot matrix printer. Many of these systems are still in use today, especially the printer. Ribbons are still available.