22 May
1998
22 May
'98
4:54 p.m.
On Fri, 22 May 1998, Russ/Alice Blakeman wrote:
Kirk Scott wrote:
I do not recognize the MBC-5nnn number series as CP/M machines, though I
could be wrong. My exposure has been to MBC-1n00, MBC-2n00, and MBC-3000
(which used 8" drives) as the CP/M machines.
- don
...... When I had this nasty little Sanyo MBC-55x
machine.......
Just saw one of these at a friend's place tonight and she was interested in getting
rid of it. I think the model number was MBC-5510 (???). She said she also had a printer
that came with it. What is it? What would be a reasonable price to offer for it?
That's the older type machines (4 digit model number) and not the "MSDOS
compatible" (yeah right) that I was speaking of. I believe the 5510 was a CP/M
machine that ran a Z80 processor and someone else in the list may hae more exposure to
those. The units
I'm speaking of are in the model numbers of MBC-550 (one SSDD drive), MBC-555 (2 SSDD
drives), MBC-550-2 (one DSDD drive) and MBC-555-2 (2 DSDD drives) and other similar
numbers that are three place 55x series model numbers. It ran an 8088 4.77mhz
processor, had Apple bitmap graphics, Apple style DIP joystick plugin, composite video
out and a number of very expensive proprietary add-ons. The serial port was an option and
used the 8251 USART instead of the IBM style 8250. Very fun when you wanted to
get PC communications software to work on it without reworking the software through
patches to make it see and accept the 8251.
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