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Merge with PC-9800 series?[edit]

This could be merged with NEC PC-98. You see, the APC III was an attempt to market it in the US. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.253.143.208 (talk • contribs)

APC III is sufficiently notable to deserve its own page. That latter page is about the whole PC9800 series, despite the stupid name it has in en.wiki. What should probably be done is to turn this page into a proper article about the whole APC series, which was (one of) NEC's export series. The APC IV for instance was not a PC98-based product. Someone not using his real name (talk) 16:18, 15 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Where's the page for the NEC APC ... the original one? I developed SW for those on 3 different operating systems back in the day. At the time, it tied with a Hitachi computer for graphics capabilities, but the NEC had "square pixels" which were a big deal for VLSI IC design work. I posted a lot of information about it on the page for UCSD P-System, but it was removed as "off-topic". However I don't see anything for the APC, which was years before the IBM-PC, faster, more expandable, and had graphics that PC-Clones didn't get until the later 1980s. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bempey (talk • contribs) 22:10, 13 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This should not be merged with NEC PC-98, despite the hardware being similar; the APC series, despite the similarites in hardware with the PC-98, is a rebadge of the NEC N5200 [ja], which was released a year earlier by a different division of NEC. I will update this page with references for that. (I also think the page should probably be renamed to APC or NEC APC but I'll leave that for the moment.) Cjs (talk) 05:26, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I have noted (with reference) that the APC series is the international version of the N5200 series. I also found APC manuals on archive.org, so I've gone and pushed all the APC III stuff down a level, added a new top-level section for the APC with information from the manuals and a pic from the commons and renamed this page to "APC series." (I chose the name to parallel "PC-9800 series," since that's a similar series of computers from NEC.) This also exposed another difference between the (original) APC and PC-9801: the former did not have any graphics capabilities beyond what can be provided by having a user-definable character set. (The APC had only one µPD7220; the PC-9801 had two, one for text and one for graphics.) Cjs (talk) 07:26, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Is photo appropriate?[edit]

The photograph currently in the article claims to be of the "APC II." I didn't manage to see any Roman numeral in the logo on the monitor bezel. Do we have proof that the APC III used the same case design? If so, the caption should be altered to explain the image better. If not, the image should be removed. --SoledadKabocha (talk) 19:07, 13 September 2013 (UTC) (+ 19:09, 13 September 2013 (UTC))[reply]

Just so nobody gets confused: the photo discussed above appears to have been removed from the article; the current photo of an APC (APC I) is not the one discused above. Cjs (talk) 07:45, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Cross-link Fixes[edit]

I've added a redirect from N5200 to this page, but we should probably also have cross-links to the ja N5200 page, beyond the one in the text. I do not know how to get this working in the "Languages" side bar, however. (I tried to have a go at adding them on both the en and ja sites, but it didn't seem to work.) Cjs (talk) 07:19, 4 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]