1B/V3 Gallery

Personal Media Corporation has been marketing a BTRON-specification operating system for IBM-PC compatibles called 1B since the middle of 1994. 1B is now in its third release, 1B/V3, having recently been upgraded to handle JIS auxiliary kanji plus Chinese and Korean character sets. These additions make 1B the best personal computer operating system for both Japanese-language processing and multilingual data processing tasks currently available in Japan.

1B/V3 comes in three different configurations depending on what types of bundled applications the buyer wishes to purchase with the basic operating system. These configurations are:

1B/V3 Standard (¥15,000, consumption tax not included)

• operating system
• basic text editor (word processing software)
• basic figure editor (graphics software)
• communications software
• MicroScript execution function
• accessory software grouping

1B/V3 Masters (¥40,000, consumption tax not included)

In addition to the items in 1B/V3 Standard,

• 1B Spreadsheet
• 1B MicroCard
• 1B MIDI Player
• 1B MicroScript Development Kit

1B/V3 Professional (¥50,000, consumption tax not included)

In addition to the items in 1B/V3 Masters,

• BTRON1 development support tools
• BTRON1 development support tools' contents
• BTRON1 Programming Standard Handbook
• C compiler and linker that runs on MS-DOS

Below are some screen shots of the 1B/V3 at different resolutions.