18 Jan
1999
18 Jan
'99
9:23 a.m.
Doug wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Bill Sudbrink wrote:
Mine was faster, after I dumped a $25 (then) NEC V20 into it while the PC
stayed with it's original processor.
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. And no,
I'm not prejudiced because I wrote the Byte magazine review of it. :)
It's a great hackers machine because almost nothing is in ROM and with
a little hardware hacking it could be made pretty close to an IBM PC
in terms of compatibility and a heck of a lot faster.
Faster? Are we talking about the same machine? The Sanyo had to be the
only clone that ever took IBM's pokey 4.77Mz clock and *reduced* it to
3.58MHz!