PC-9800 Series
The PC-9800 Series is a lineup of Japanese 16-bit and 32-bit personal computers manufactured by NEC from 1982 through 2000. The platform established NEC's dominance in the Japanese personal computer market, and by 1999, more than 18 million PC-98 units had been sold.
History
The first model, the PC-9801, was launched on October 1982, and employed an 8086 CPU. It ran at a clock speed of 5 MHz, with two µPD7220 display controllers (one for text, the other for video graphics), and shipped with 128 KB of RAM, expandable to 640 KB. Its 8-color display had a maximum resolution of 640×400 pixels. Its successor, the PC-9801E, which appeared in 1983, employed an 8086-2 CPU, which could selectively run at a speed of either 5 or 8 MHz. The NEC PC-9801VM used NEC V30 CPU.
When the PC-9801 was launched in 1982, it was initially priced at 298,000 yen (about 1,200 USD in 1982 dollars).
In the 1980s and early 1990s, NEC dominated the Japan domestic PC market with more than 60% of the PCs sold as PC-9801 or PC-8801. In 1990, IBM Japan introduced the DOS/V operating system which enabled displaying Japanese text on standard IBM PC/AT VGA adapters. After that, the decline of the PC-98 began. The PC-9801's last successor was the Celeron-based PC-9821Ra43 (with a clockspeed of 433 MHz, using a 440FX chipset-based motherboard design from 1998), which appeared in 2000.
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Superpowers
by: Big 10-4When I walked in no heads turned around,
It was clear to me that the word had gone around,
People stand talking to the ground,
And it's so damn loud and I can't hear a sound,
I look around there's nowhere to escape,
It's times like these I wish I had my superpowers,
I would fly, get away from here,
And its time like these I had my superpowers,
I will freeze time and disappear, run away from here,
Slowly I walk through this crowd,
To see her face a little less proud,
If the walls could talk they'd tell me to run,
And not to stop until I hit the sun,
She wouldn't have it any other way,
It's times like these I wish I had my superpowers,
I would fly away from here,
And its time like these I had my superpowers,
I will freeze time and disappear, run away from here,
Oh I've been wasting all of my breath saying I'm sorry,
Run away from you, and away from here,
It's times like these I wish I had my superpowers,
I would fly, get away from here,
And its time like these I had my superpowers,