NEC D765D - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

13 Feb 2013

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On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 10:27 PM PST Chuck Guzis wrote:

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 On 02/13/2013 09:03 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:

  "It works on a real IBM PC" carries no
weight when a reviewer's machine
 is buggy. 
Apparently, the Sanyo piece-of-something MBC-550 series machines are now collectors'
items.  One of the worst PC-compatibles/non-compatibles ever.  Used a WD17xx floppy
controller and ran (by CPU clock) slower than the 5150.  Has a sort of VCR-look to it.  
No BIOS, except for a very simple bootloader--the BIOS had to be loaded from your boot
floppy.

One wonders what possessed Sanyo to make the thing.

--Chuck 
 I thought you liked the Silver Fox. Yes it had a 3.58 mhz clock, a hybrid digital-linear
power supply, one red key and the largest return key you'll ever need. My dookey
machine don't work currently. It may look like a vcr because it's so compact.
Warez are available on the Tandy 2000 yahoo group or at least there's a recent threadc
telling you where to find them. They had a following back in the day. Had better color
graphics then cga if you could imagine.