NEC 文豪 Mini7, 1985

By Xah Lee. Date: .

The NEC 文豪 (Great Writer) is a serius of word processors and personal computers, very popular around 1980s. It is also famous for M-System, for Japanese input. (文豪 may be translated as Great Writer or Bungo)

[see NEC M-System keyboards History]

NEC 文豪 (Great Write) Mini 7 (PWP-70) is released in October 1985.

NEC mini7 mqjdk
NEC 文豪 mini7 [image source http://i-harima.net/matikado/venue2016/30-世界で唯一の各種m式キーボードを展示/]
M-type keyboard nzgj2
book on NEC M-system keyboard [image source twitter Beamspring]

Japan keyboards

Japan FKB8579 661 thumb shift keyboard 45474 s335x187
Thumb-Shift, 1980
NEC PC 8801 K1 keyboard bj3qh-s333x188
NEC PC-8801-KI, 1983
NEC mini7 mqjdk-s306x204
NEC 文豪 Mini7, 1985
TRON Keyboard Unit TK1 s1520x831
TRON, 1986
nec m-type keyboard 1990 36618-s278x225
NEC M-system, 1990
NEC mini7rm 48190-s306x204
NEC 文豪 Mini7RM, 1992
NEC M-shiki keyboard NEC PC98 1992-s333x188
NEC PC-9801, 1992
NEC keyboard pk-kb015 2-s320x195
NEC Ergofit, 1998
scythe ergo diver keyboard left s289x217
Scythe Ergo Diver, ~2003
utron keyboard 02-s289x217
μTRON, 2007
Esrille keyboard 40445-s289x217
Esrille New