Nasty little Sanyo (was Re:Original IBM PC (was Re: Prices to pay for old computers))

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Fri May 22 23:54:54 1998

On Fri, 22 May 1998, Russ/Alice Blakeman wrote:

> Kirk Scott wrote:
>
> > ...... When I had this nasty little Sanyo MBC-55x machine.......
> >
> > 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.

I do not recognize the MBC-5nnn number series as CP/M machines, though I
could be wrong. My exposure has been to MBC-1n00, MBC-2n00, and MBC-3000
(which used 8" drives) as the CP/M machines.
                                                 - don

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