Eastern European Computing (was: Re: MSX comments.... (Re:)

From: Charles P. Hobbs <transit_at_primenet.com>
Date: Sun Jun 15 09:38:05 1997

On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Sam Ismail wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Cord Coslor wrote:
>
> > And, finally, this project (the MSX) did NOT fail miserably. In the United
> > States, teh MSX did fail miserably... but mainly because of the fact that
> > it was not widely marketed here. The MSX was VERY popular in Asia and, I
> > believe, in Europe. To tell you the truth it still is! I happen to be a

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>
> WoW! The more I hear about this thing the more I want one. It's amazing
> that this system was so unknown in the states. It's like discovering a
> whole new species. Of course, I'd never heard of the Oric either until I
> started doing more research into older computers. I wonder if anything
> will come out of the old eastern bloc countries. I hear they did quite a
> bit of cloning of western technology.

I remember a Byte Magazine from about 10 years ago that had an article
about a Russian Apple II clone (called the "Agat"). It used a modified
DOS that used the hi-res screens to display Cyrillic characters . . .
Received on Sun Jun 15 1997 - 09:38:05 BST