26 Dec
2012
26 Dec
'12
5:50 p.m.
On 12/26/2012 04:55 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Wed, 26 Dec 2012, Chris Tofu wrote:
I've seen the JX for sale in Oz--terrible system design--an "improved"
Peanut with all of the bad points left in and a few more added. I
recall that at the early announcement that there was speculation that it
might use the new 80286 CPU. No such luck--same old 8088 4.77MHz.
There was a hard disk available for it as a "stackable" item that fit on
top of the CPU/floppy unit. The price was outrageous for a 10 MB disk.
As if that weren't enough, the basic hardware had large
incompatibilities with the 5150.
One wonders why they bothered.
--Chuck
Terry thanks for that, I'm watching it now.
You're in New Zealand IIRC. You should try and get your hands on some
wild Japanese pseudo compatibles. I'm of the persuasion they're much
more plentiful (for what it's worth!) then they are over here.
Howzbout PC/JX? NOT available EVER in USA, but legit IBM machine with
720K 5.25" drives available.