Hey everyone yes it was me that found this.
I just about shit a brick when I picked it up in my hands. Truly a miracle! I was hoping that SOMEONE could possibly learn something new from this manual, whether it's for modding, repairs, or programming. I would like to think that the schematics are WAY better than anything else that was available before.
Rather than hoarding this and keeping it from the community we have decided to share it all with you. It was a gift to Roy from me for Christmas. As far as the scans go and the find is concerned - as long as Roy and I get credit for the find and posting it I think that would be sufficient for both of us. As far as selling the original it's Roy's and if he is to ever get rid of it - it will go back to me for safe keeping so don't even think about it. :-)
Oh and it's good to be back (kind of). I'm sure some of you MIGHT remember me... been here for a while but not in the past few years. When the chat went away I pretty much did as well. Good times.
Basically here's the deal - the stuff was found in an ex NEC technician employees garage 20+ years later. There was SO much NEC stuff in that garage, this book is just the beginning. I also found all sorts of other stuff.. new model 1 CD drives still in their white boxes. A new Turbografx-16 console complete with foam blocks and everything (minus the outer box), 2 docking bases, 2 docking base AC Adapters, 2 system 2.0 cards, 2 brand new Turbosticks, hoards of other controllers and turbosticks, a turbo-booster, just only a couple games. Found the manual, and other NEC repair manuals for various VHS players and NEC Laptops.
Get this also found BRAND new NEC Multispeed HD laptop. Look it up, quite interesting and powerful for the time. It runs on MS DOS 3.2 and has a built in 20MB HD - and a backlit screen - this was all very advanced in 1987. It came with every manual and I even got the technicians manuals for it as well.
The place is still CHOCK full so the test jig just MAY still be in there. I am still welcome to the place to see what else I can find any time. It's like the biggest NEC find in general ever.
I know off topic, but also got an NEC VHS Camcorder - thing sits on top of your shoulders, came in the box with the foam blocks and everything also - but dead battery. Also can't figure out how to make the thing rw/ff/pause/play/rec. Nothing seems to make the tape respond. Is there some kind of copy protection on the VHS tapes or something I tried using?
I can go on and on - found so many other technical manuals - a C64 technicians diagnostic data sheet, bins and bins full of drive belts and other old electronics repair parts, etc etc.
I don't want to make this too long of a story and not bragging but everything was FREE. Just wanted it all out of his garage.
Should I go back? I seemt to recall boxes and boxes of old computer parts, several server looking cases with motherboards in them (maybe Turbografx development computers?), etc etc.
Roy thats great that you got pictures up! Were you able to get it scanned? I was hoping we could maybe get some clean scans of it. I personally wanted to assemble the images into a PDF file and then will probably have Roy upload it to esteban's site or wherever you all think it fits best. If anyone is good at assembling images into a PDF file with hyperlinks (so you can skip around using the table of contents for example) then fire away some tips on that.
ok back to some Lords of Thunder..
