Sanyo 55x detractors (was:RE: IBM Floppy...)

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Mon Jan 18 20:06:08 1999

At 06:37 PM 1/18/99 -0500, you wrote:
>> > Come on now, what you don't seem to remember is that it was less than
>> > half as expensive as any other similar machine at the time. And no,
>> > I'm not prejudiced because I wrote the Byte magazine review of it. :)
>> > It's a great hackers machine because almost nothing is in ROM and with
>> > a little hardware hacking it could be made pretty close to an IBM PC
>> > in terms of compatibility and a heck of a lot faster.
>>
>> Faster? Are we talking about the same machine? The Sanyo had to be the
>> only clone that ever took IBM's pokey 4.77Mz clock and *reduced* it to
>> 3.58MHz!
>
>I did say with a little hardware hacking. You could OC it to 7.16 with a
>V20.

   MAYBE but you still didn't have anything! I owned a 550 and used it for
years. It was a piece of crap!!!! Very poor compatablity, kludged video
system, slow, only one expansion socket (undocumented) and the "IBM
compatible" video card used it up, WEAK power supply, no memory expansion
beyond 256K, the DOS was full of bugs, VERY VERY POOR documentation (except
for the Star Programs that came with it).

The Sanyo had to be the
>> only clone that ever took IBM's pokey 4.77Mz clock and *reduced* it to
>> 3.58MHz!

  Yeah, but using TV crystals probably saved Sanyo at least $.05 per unit!

   Joe
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