papa_november
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This is a very, very long shot, but somehow I managed to pick up an apparently ultra-rare American version (only a few thousand were sold in the West) of the first-generation PC-88. It's missing the disk drives and keyboard, though it looks as if standard 5.25 low-density drives can be hooked up.
The big problem is that apparently the first-gen PC-88 uses a completely different keyboard with a completely different connector from the later Japanese-only models, so I can't just import one of those. There does not appear to be any adaptors available or even plans for building one; only the original keyboard will work.
If anyone somehow happens to have this keyboard laying around, please get in touch with me.
Failing that, if anyone wants this thing, you can have it (for cost of shipping). It's not terribly useful as a PC-88 (it lacks the video mode used by most later games, not to mention the enhanced sound hardware available for later models), but since it's the American version (I didn't even know there was an American version), it is quite rare.
The big problem is that apparently the first-gen PC-88 uses a completely different keyboard with a completely different connector from the later Japanese-only models, so I can't just import one of those. There does not appear to be any adaptors available or even plans for building one; only the original keyboard will work.
If anyone somehow happens to have this keyboard laying around, please get in touch with me.
Failing that, if anyone wants this thing, you can have it (for cost of shipping). It's not terribly useful as a PC-88 (it lacks the video mode used by most later games, not to mention the enhanced sound hardware available for later models), but since it's the American version (I didn't even know there was an American version), it is quite rare.
