- Name
- NEC PC-8801
- Abbreviation
- PC88
- Release Date
- August 1981
- Manufacturer
- NEC Home Electronics, Ltd. (Company)
- Launch price
- $
- Install base
- Online service
- No
- Aliases
NEC PC-8801
This NEC computer was released in 1981 and is more commonly referred to as the PC-88.
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Released in 1981, the PC-8801 was an 8-bit computerfrom NEC that dominated the 8-bit Japanesecomputer market in the 1980's, beating out competition from the Sharp X1 (Platform), Fujitsu FM-7, and MSX (Platform). In 1983, the PC-8201A was produced by Kyocera as one of the world's first laptop computers. In 1987, a more advanced 16-bit model was released, the PC-88 VA, which featured some of the graphical capabilities of NEC's PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16) console along with the Yamaha YM2608 stereo FM sound chip, in order to rival the more powerful 32-bit Sharp X68000 (Platform) computer. By the end of the 80's, the PC-88 was superceded by the NEC PC-98 line, which would dominate the Japanese computer market during the late 80's to 90's, and become one of the best-selling computers of all time.
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