faiman@uiuccsb.UUCP (12/02/83)
#N:uiuccsb:5100005:000:858 uiuccsb!faiman Dec 1 15:53:00 1983 Our School of Humanities here at the University of Illinois is hoping to buy a number of pc-like -- though not necessarily lookalike -- machines for faculty use, chiefly I gather as text editors/processors. One possiblility is for them to buy IBM because of the attractive university discount. But NEC has been trying to interest them in the NEC Advanced Personal Computer. The base machine has an 8086, 128k bytes (expandable), two 1M-byte 8" floppydrives green monitor and a really excellent keyboard. It's supplied with CP/M-86 (MS-DOS is supposed to be available) and a lot of fairly standard software like Wordstar and Supercalc. "Special introductory"price of $$1995.00. If anyone out there knows anything about this machine, good or bad, I would be grateful to hear from him or her. Mail me at uiucdcs!faiman Mike Faiman -- Dept of CS