18 Jan
1999
18 Jan
'99
12:29 p.m.
At 05:21 PM 1/18/99 -0600, you wrote:
Bill Sudbrink wrote:
> 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) made use of them and even
> > pushed the hard drive drive (if equipped) to C: and routed the
> > others around rather than trying the tricky "assign" command to
> > do this. That was the only real nice thing about that silver piece
> > of human waste. Who would have thought a PC level machine would
> > have no ALT key?
>
> Come on now, what you don't seem to remember is that it was less than
> half as expensive as any other similar machine at the time.
Only because >THE< IBM PC was the only other "similar" machine on the
market at the time! Even so, it was a poor bargain!
BTW one reason the Sanyo was the first (choke!) "compatible" machine on
the market and the reason that it had so many compatiblity problems was
that it was designed as a CPM machine and converted to MS-DOS at the last
moment.
And no,
> I'm not prejudiced because I wrote the Byte
magazine review of it. :)
Then I would like to wring your neck! I bought my 550 based on your
glowing report. You completely brushed over the compatibility and other
problems. Crap like that is the reason that I quit reading Byte. They
never told the truth about the SW and HW they were testing.
Joe