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The '''PC-8801''' is a home and business computer released by [[NEC]] in 1981. It is a successor to the [[PC-8001]], and was, for a short period, NEC's flagship home computer.

==Hardware==
{{ScreenThumb|PC8801 Boot.png|"How many files?", asks the computer when you turn it on.}}
The PC-8801 makes a number of significant improvements over the PC-8001 architecture. Rather than housing the machine within a keyboard (which would then be extended with add-on boxes), it shares a similar design with the IBM PC 5150 released some months prior, being a rectangular box that the user plugs components into. However, unlike IBM, NEC continued to ask its users to spend extra on external disk drives or cassette decks; something corrected in later revisions of the hardware.

The PC-8801 pre-dates the [[PC-8001 mkII]] and [[PC-8001 mkII SR]], so software written for those machines is incompatible. Support would never officially be added to any PC-8800 series computer.

With the release of the [[PC-9801]] in 1982, the PC-8801 would be positioned as the mainstream, mid-range machine from NEC (with the [[PC-6001]] taking the budget market). It would remain a popular platform in Japan until being replaced with the [[PC-8801 mkII SR]] in 1985.

===Technical specifications===

==List of games==
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==References==
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