Re: Mitac Apple 2 clone?

[steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius)]

julesrichardsonuk@yahoo.co.uk (Jules) wrote in message news:<5c07806a.0306050337.5eead445@posting.google.com>...
> Hi,
> 
> I stumbled across a Mitac "Little Intelligent Computer" that I've
> inherited from somewhere over the years the other day - I'd forgotten
> that I had it. There's a few pics at:
> 
>   http://www.moosenet.demon.co.uk/temp/apple2/mitac.jpg
>   http://www.moosenet.demon.co.uk/temp/apple2/mitac_and_psu.jpg
>   http://www.moosenet.demon.co.uk/temp/apple2/mitac_slots.jpg
>   http://www.moosenet.demon.co.uk/temp/apple2/mitac_rear.jpg
> 
> It seems to be a Japanese Apple 2 clone far as I can tell - with
> built-in TV modulator, disk interfaces, and 80-column card amongst
> other things. I did a bit of poking around but haven't seen it on any
> list of Apple 2 clones. I've got both  110V and 220V power supplies
> for it (plus two of those backplane units for some reason) so I'm not
> sure if the TV output is NTSC or PAL compatible. If I can uncover my
> Apple 2 drives at some point I'll see if I can get some sense out if
> it :)
> 
> Has anyone seen one of these or can tell me any more about it? 
> 
> cheers
> 
> Jules

It looks to me like it's not Japanese.  The three symbols on the
bottom could be Japanese - Japanese and Chinese share thousands of
charactes - but that only the kanji are used suggests that it's
probably Chinese.  Taiwan or Hong Kong perhaps.  I don't know what TV
standard is used in those areas.  Japan at least is NTSC.

-uso.