Kirk Scott wrote:
> ...... When I had this nasty little Sanyo MBC-55x machine.......
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> Just saw one of these at a friend's place tonight and she was interested in getting rid of it. I think the model number was MBC-5510 (???). She said she also had a printer that came with it. What is it? What would be a reasonable price to offer for it?
That's the older type machines (4 digit model number) and not the "MSDOS compatible" (yeah right) that I was speaking of. I believe the 5510 was a CP/M machine that ran a Z80 processor and someone else in the list may hae more exposure to those. The units
I'm speaking of are in the model numbers of MBC-550 (one SSDD drive), MBC-555 (2 SSDD drives), MBC-550-2 (one DSDD drive) and MBC-555-2 (2 DSDD drives) and other similar numbers that are three place 55x series model numbers. It ran an 8088 4.77mhz
processor, had Apple bitmap graphics, Apple style DIP joystick plugin, composite video out and a number of very expensive proprietary add-ons. The serial port was an option and used the 8251 USART instead of the IBM style 8250. Very fun when you wanted to
get PC communications software to work on it without reworking the software through patches to make it see and accept the 8251.
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