16 Feb
2013
16 Feb
'13
11:24 a.m.
On Fri, 15 Feb 2013, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 02/15/2013 02:12 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
I had a Sumicom System 330 for a short while back in the late 80's. It
wasn't 100% compatible, but it was a nice machine for what it was. The
thing I recall most about it was the silk screen on the boards - they used
yellow instead of white. Pretty neat looking.
g.
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Tandy and Amstrad machines had one accessory
available that AFAIK was not
avaialbe for other clones (it was avaialbe for IB< 5150/5160/5170
machines). This accessory is rather important to me. I refer, of course,
to a schematic diagram.
There were many manufacturers, mostly forgotten in the early days of the IBM
PC. Most didn't anticipate the wide acceptance of the PC platform.
Personally, I was sorely disappointed that the 5150 didn't use a 68K CPU,
like the lab computer that was annouced just weeks before. That might have
been a game-changer.
Corona PC? MAD Intelligent Systems PC? Seequa Chameleon? Visual (yes, they
made a PC)? The list is very long. We tend to remember only the brands that
managed to hang on for a while, such as Tandy, Packard-Bell, Leading Edge.
etc. Many never made it past the 8086 stage.