15 Jun
1997
15 Jun
'97
5:38 a.m.
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Sam Ismail wrote:
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Cord Coslor wrote:
> And, finally, this project (the MSX) did NOT fail miserably. In the United
> States, teh MSX did fail miserably... but mainly because of the fact that
> it was not widely marketed here. The MSX was VERY popular in Asia and, I
> believe, in Europe. To tell you the truth it still is! I happen to be a
[...]
WoW! The more I hear about this thing the more I want one. It's amazing
that this system was so unknown in the states. It's like discovering a
whole new species. Of course, I'd never heard of the Oric either until I
started doing more research into older computers. I wonder if anything
will come out of the old eastern bloc countries. I hear they did quite a
bit of cloning of western technology.
I remember a Byte Magazine from about 10 years ago that had an article
about a Russian Apple II clone (called the "Agat"). It used a modified
DOS that used the hi-res screens to display Cyrillic characters . . .