9 Nov
2010
9 Nov
'10
12:14 p.m.
What's
silly about them (if picofuses are sensible)?
Maybe they're common on European gear, but the Joyce was the first
time I'd ever seen one--they're just not what I'd consider to be a
"universal" part. I still think the nicest CP/M machine I've
seen is the Epson QX10.
That's a hard call--if we're talking about Z80-based CP/M machines (not x86 or 68K), some of the other late Japanese
machines were
pretty impressive. The QX10 was interesting to me mostly in its non-
I did say 'nicest .. that I've seen' :-). The QX10 seems to have some
pretty nice hardware. Mostly stnadard chips too (alas mine has the later
video board with the gate array chip :-() and those lovelly voice coil
floppy drives.
I am not familiar with many other Japanese CP/M machines. What was nice
about them?
-tony