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

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Tue Jan 19 04:44:54 1999

Joe wrote:

> At 05:43 PM 1/18/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >Russ Blakeman [rhblake_at_bigfoot.com] wrote:
> >
> >> Sanyo MBC-55x-2 series had a 4 floppy controller but DOS saw only
> >> A: and B: and it's hacked DOS used it quite well. The bum end of
> >> it was that RAM disks and hard drives went to E: by defualt. An
> >> aftermarket DOS (name escapes me now)
>
> DS-DOS by Michtron. I bought it. It was the buggiest piece of software
> that I ever had the DIS-pleasure of owning! DS-DOS would let you use 80
> track 5 1/4" drives in the Sanyo and put 10 sectors on them. =800K per disk.

Yup and you're right on the bugs but some of them were addressed in Soft Sector
and I was able to rehack mine to work most of the time. I;m sure you're with me
on selecting the 55x series the crappiest of all things called a computer ever.
Babages' mechanical tabulator made the 55x series look substandard in my
opinion. At least his tabulator worked right.

I did learn a lot from it though, like never buy a Sanyo again.
Received on Tue Jan 19 1999 - 04:44:54 GMT