I opened my NEC PC-8508A ROM/RAM Cartridge today. It was, of course, just
like your's pictured below but my ROM sockets (4) were white. So clearly the
NEC PC-8500 was designed to employ option ROMs. Still not sure if any were
made or if the Real Estate and Expert I & II program advertised we
As an owner of a Starlet, I have a 32k cartridge that lets me use the full
64k for CP/M. That's the only change I see.
I also have the expansion cartridge that lets you connect a monitor and a
floppy. I don't have the floppy (yet?), but I do have the monochrome cable
and have connected it to a com
Any NEC PC-8500/Starlet owners or folks familiar?To keep it short, in 64K Mode,
all the 64K in the computer is assigned to the OS and all the RAM in the
cartridge is for storage. Is that correct?
The NEC PC-8508A ROM/RAM Cartridge...is there a "ROM" socket in there?
Thanks.
Chris
I found an old add that said and option were programs called Insurance Expert
I and II and Real Estate Expert. Not sure if they were ROMS.
Interesting.
On Saturday, June 27, 2020, 01:15:37 AM EDT, Gary Weber
wrote:
The rumor I had heard way, way back in the day was that NEC had origin
From your pic, there are ROM sockets in the PC-8508A! I wondered if they
offered any ROMs? Never came across any.
On Friday, June 26, 2020, 11:33:00 PM EDT, John R. Hogerhuis
wrote:
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 7:20 PM Chris Fezzler wrote:
Any NEC PC-8500/Starlet owners or folks famili
The rumor I had heard way, way back in the day was that NEC had originally
intended to release ROMware for those cartridges. Not sure it ever
happened.
I'd like to believe they'd at least released the technical information on
how those ROM sockets are mapped within memory. We just need to find
t
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 7:20 PM Chris Fezzler wrote:
> Any NEC PC-8500/Starlet owners or folks familiar?
> To keep it short, in 64K Mode, all the 64K in the computer is assigned to
> the OS and all the RAM in the cartridge is for storage. Is that correct?
>
>
I've never got it into all-RAM mode.
