19 Jan
1999
19 Jan
'99
2:02 a.m.
> 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 compatibility problems was
that it was designed as a CPM machine and converted to MS-DOS at the last
moment.
When it was first released, I don't believe that Sanyo made any
compatibility
claims.
> 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.