On Sun, January 21, 2007 04:22, Jim Leonard wrote:
Witchy wrote:
People didn't like the MSX because it arrived
just as the UK computer
industry was crashing badly - 85/86, and they also didn't like it
because
it didn't offer anything new.
I disagree on the "nothing new" part -- didn't it come with an
incredibly powerful music synthesizer as standard equipment?
Not that I remember, apart from the Yamaha CX5M which was a dedicated
music machine with full size keyboard:
http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum/Yamaha/cx5m.php
On a related note, I was SO looking forward to the
music I could create
with a IIgs until I learned that the Ensoniq embedded on the thing could
access a grand total of 64KB total sample data. Made the chip nearly
worthless :-(
Only 64K? What was the point of that?
--
adrian/witchy
Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UKs biggest home computer collection?