5 Mar
1998
5 Mar
'98
3:24 a.m.
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Russ Blakeman wrote:
Well they called it the "Silver Box" but
most of us that ownedd them
started to call them the "Silver Junk Box" after we really found out
what clunkers they were. They made a PCJr look to be 100% compatible.
Sanyo didn't even put an ALT key on it.
Ouch. As former editor of some San Diego Sanyo MBC newsletter who's name
escapes me, I must protest. I thought the Sanyo keyboard was much better
than the klicky IBM keyboard, and it had that one key that lights up.
Plus the silver box was very cool looking in a cheap stereo kind of way.
It was a welcome challenge trying to get the Sanyo to do things the other
PC's could do. And it was pretty hackable. I remember porting KERMIT to
work with the non-standard serial ports (8251?) after Sanyo sent me the
source of their BIOS.... OK, I also remember running away from the Sanyo
as fast as I could once the cheap clones from Taiwan got off the boat.
-- Doug