13 Mar
1998
13 Mar
'98
3:16 a.m.
Yesterday, I saw three interesting machines but I didn't get them
because A) I was short on cash and B) I'm really running out of room
around here and trying not to buy everything I see... I'm not at all
familiar with any of these, but if I were to go back and possibly get
one of them, I'd like some comments on them to help me decide:
- Amstrad PCW 8256 (z80/cpm system?)
- Sanyo MBC 550 (straight PC clone?)
- Olivetti EVT300 (I may have botched the part number from faulty
memory, it's a stylish black metal PC-ish box with one 3.5"
floppy--related to AT&T 6300?)
All were priced in the 10-15 dollar range. Which, if any, would you
buy?
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13 Mar
13 Mar
6:34 a.m.
Greg Troutman wrote:
Yesterday, I saw three interesting machines but I
didn't get them
because A) I was short on cash and B) I'm really running out of room
around here and trying not to buy everything I see... I'm not at all
familiar with any of these, but if I were to go back and possibly get
one of them, I'd like some comments on them to help me decide:
- Amstrad PCW 8256 (z80/cpm system?)
- Sanyo MBC 550 (straight PC clone?)
- Olivetti EVT300 (I may have botched the part number from faulty
memory, it's a stylish black metal PC-ish box with one 3.5"
floppy--related to AT&T 6300?)
All were priced in the 10-15 dollar range. Which, if any, would you
buy?
In my opinion they need to pay YOU to take the Sanyo. They're real dogs
and if they don't have the specially modified DOS that goes with it then
it's not even a good paperweight. I had one for some time and I was so
glad to get a clone and sell the Sanyo (I spell it Say-No anymore). There
wasn't any support from Sanyo on them back in the mid 80's and there's
virually none
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4:01 p.m.
At 06:16 AM 3/13/98 -0800, you wrote:
Yesterday, I saw three interesting machines but I
didn't get them
because A) I was short on cash and B) I'm really running out of room
around here and trying not to buy everything I see... I'm not at all
familiar with any of these, but if I were to go back and possibly get
one of them, I'd like some comments on them to help me decide:
- Amstrad PCW 8256 (z80/cpm system?)
Yes, CPM system. I've seen two of these for sale in in the past week.
Apparently they sold most of these as word processors and not as computers.
These require the special 3 inch disks, so you may want to be sure it
includes some since they're hard to find.
- Sanyo MBC 550 (straight PC clone?)
A pain in the A__! I used to have one. I requies special DOS and won't
run a lot of the MS-DOS software, Skip it!
- Olivetti EVT300 (I may have botched the part number
from faulty
memory, it's a stylish black metal PC-ish box with one 3.5"
floppy--related to AT&T 6300?)
All were priced in the 10-15 dollar range. Which, if any, would you
buy?
Definitely not the Sanyo!
Joe
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3:48 p.m.
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14 Mar
14 Mar
8:05 a.m.
At 02:48 AM 3/14/98 +0000, you wrote:
It is possible to fit 3.5" drives into these machines. AFAIK, all you
have to do is match up signals between the 34 pin connector on the 3.5"
(720K, of course) drive and the 26 pin connector in the machine. I can
look up pinouts of the latter in the service manual.
All the more reason to save it!. It's a reasonably uncommon machine IMHO.
So what if it doesn't run most MS-DOS software - nor do most of my
machines. We have PC's for that :-)
I used to have tons of software specificly for the Sanyo. I'll have to
look and see if any of it's still around. If it is you're welcome to it.
I sunk a fortne in my Sanyo, I wouldn't have another one if you gave it to
me. I bless the day that the PC clones became available.
- Amstrad PCW 8256 (z80/cpm system?)
Yes, CPM system. I've seen two of these for sale in in the past week.
Apparently they sold most of these as word processors and not as computers.
These require the special 3 inch disks, so you may want to be sure it
includes some since they're hard to find. - Sanyo MBC 550 (straight PC clone?)
A pain in the A__! I used to have one. I requies special DOS and won't
run a lot of the MS-DOS software, Skip it! Seriously, there are 2 classes of machine in my
collection. The first are
machines like (although I hate to say it) the PC I'm typing this on,
PERQs, PDP11's, PDP8's, etc - machines that run useful programs, and are
useful computers. The second is machines which, although interesting
computers, and worth preserving are not so useful. In my case these
consist mainly of home micros. I keep them running, and I use them from
time to time. But if I want to write a letter, or do some programming, I
use one of the first category of machines. Of course how you group your
machines depends on what you want to do with them.
The Sanyo is in the sceond group IMHO. It's still worth preserving.
That's only becuase you never had to try to use one!
Joe
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