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

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Tue Jan 19 04:47:56 1999

I got mine to a 1.4 with the V20, probably because I had the overpriced CGA
board and the piggybacked 768k memory hack using 100ns DRAMS instead of the
150's. I never did drop a V20/30 into any of my IBM's, they work fine the way
they are.

Joe wrote:

> At 05:23 PM 1/18/99 -0600, you wrote:
>
> >> 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!
> >
> >Mine was faster, after I dumped a $25 (then) NEC V20 into it while the PC
> >stayed with it's original processor.
>
> SI reported .7 on my 550 compared to 1 on a PC. With the V20 the 550
> reported .8 to .9 . The PC reported ~1.2 to 1.3 with a V20. Even with a
> V20 the Sanyo was still slower than the stock PC!
>
> Joe
Received on Tue Jan 19 1999 - 04:47:56 GMT