NEC PC-9800 Series (1982 - 2003)

nec shipped the pc-9801 in october 1982 and then spent a decade owning japanese computing, past sixty percent of the market by 1991. the reason was writing. an ibm clone in the eighties could not put japanese text on a screen at a size you could read, and the pc-98 had the character rom and the display hardware to do it. ibm japan solved the same problem in software with dos/v in 1990, and windows…