NEC's American subsidiary, NEC Home Electronics (USA), marketed variations of the PC-8801 in the United States.įor its time, the PC-8801SR (V2-mode) had a high display resolution, but could only display 8 out of 512 colors simultaneously.
It and its variants are informally called the PC-88. The PC-8801 is a Zilog Z80-based home computer released by Nippon Electric Company (NEC) in 1981 in Japan, where it became very popular.
