Several peripherals were available for the system in North America, including an expander with three cartridge jacks (some of the cartridge-based games used two cartridges), a cassette-tape recorder, a 5.25" floppy disk drive, a printer, and a touchpad.

They started manufacturing the PC-8001 and its peripherals which were developed by the Electronic Devices Group of Nippon Electric.

[5] The PC-6001 has the μPD780 processor (NEC clone of Zilog Z80), 16 KB RAM (up to 32 KB), General Instrument AY-3-8910 3-voice sound generator, a ROM Cartridge connector, a cassette tape interface, 2 x joystick port, a parallel printer connector, an RF modulator output and a composite video output.

The ROM cartridge allowed the user to easily use software such as video games.

The PC-6001 MK2 has 64 KB memory, 16 KB video RAM, a 5+1⁄4-inch 2D floppy drive interface, Kanji character generator, RGB monitor out, speech synthesizer unit and a typewriter keyboard.