This is the Cefucom-21, an English language teaching computer from Japan - and it’s very weird. So let’s see what it’s all about! I think it’s

Exploring The Cefucom-21 Japanese English Language Teaching Computer

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2024-11-01 09:30:06

This is the Cefucom-21, an English language teaching computer from Japan - and it’s very weird. So let’s see what it’s all about!

I think it’s fair to say that I have something quite interesting to show to you today. You see, I won this machine on one of the Japanese auction sites a couple of weeks ago, and in the few weeks that I’ve owned it, it’s only raised a lot more questions than answers. For example, this thing on the side, which I assumed from the photos was some kind of screen - like a CRT or an LCD - turns out it actually isn’t, although it is a display of sorts, and of course a bit later on in the video we will have a look at how that works.

But for now I wanted to put this out there not only as an initial exploration of the hardware and sharing the few bits of information that I have managed to track down, but also as a call for help really, for anyone else out there who might know a bit more about these machines than I do. I have tracked down one person in the UK who owns one of these - in fact he actually owns two of them - and he has been incredibly helpful in sharing photos of some of the extra bits and bobs and the information that he’s managed to put together, but it turns out that neither of his machines actually work either, so he was very keen to see whether this one worked - and we’ll also talk about that a bit later on in this video.

So, what exactly is this thing? Well, it’s a Cefucom or Cefucom-21, and on the front it says “CCI Multipurpose SLAP Computer”. Now, I’m not quite sure what SLAP actually stands for, but I do know that it is something to do with language learning, because this was actually sold in Japan as an English language learning solution.

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