18 Jan
1999
18 Jan
'99
8:44 p.m.
Joe wrote:
At 05:43 PM 1/18/99 -0500, you wrote:
Yup and you're right on the bugs but some of them were addressed in Soft Sector
and I was able to rehack mine to work most of the time. I;m sure you're with me
on selecting the 55x series the crappiest of all things called a computer ever.
Babages' mechanical tabulator made the 55x series look substandard in my
opinion. At least his tabulator worked right.
I did learn a lot from it though, like never buy a Sanyo again.
Russ Blakeman [rhblake(a)bigfoot.com] wrote:
> Sanyo MBC-55x-2 series had a 4 floppy controller but DOS saw only
> A: and B: and it's hacked DOS used it quite well. The bum end of
> it was that RAM disks and hard drives went to E: by defualt. An
> aftermarket DOS (name escapes me now)
DS-DOS by Michtron. I bought it. It was the buggiest piece of software
that I ever had the DIS-pleasure of owning! DS-DOS would let you use 80
track 5 1/4" drives in the Sanyo and put 10 sectors on them. =800K per disk.