request for comments on some used equipment

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bbtel.com>
Date: Fri Mar 13 11:34:29 1998

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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