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PC-9821AN

ManufacturerNEC
RegionJapan
Platform PC-98
Original
Boxed
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A NEC PC-9821AN computer bought from buyee.jp in spring 2019. Equipped with a Pentium 90 processor, 4x 72pin SIMMs (30MB total RAM), 2x 3.5 FDD and several C-Bus expansion cards. It is very clean inside.

The cards include:

1x Ethernet (Buffalo LGY-98)
1x SCSI II (IO-Data 982A)
1x ??? (TEAC IFE-MKE)
1x SVGA (Canopus Power Window S3 928 with 2MB)

I've also sourced a Roland MPU-PC98 II midi interface card and have removed the unknown TEAC card to install it.

Has now been fitted with exide486 IDE BIOS ROM on a TEAC SCSI carrier card. This upgrades the hard disk capacity from a maximum of 542MB or 4.3GB to 127GB.

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Scans / Screenshots

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    First power on of the system after it arrived from Japan. The error message says that no OS is installed on the internal drive.

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    Output from the OSSC scan convertor showing the intput frequency of the onboard PC-98 graphics. It does a really good job of scaling it to fit my 1920x1200 screen, including scanlines.

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    Formatting a new-old stock 340MB IDE hard drive to make sure everything works.

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    Booted from a DOS 6.2 floppy and about to start the install to hard drive.

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