Anyone ever heard of a Canon BX-1?

From: Greg Ewing <greg_at_cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: Mon Oct 1 20:50:47 2001

I have recently acquired a Canon BX-1 Desktop Computer.
It's a self-contained unit incorporating an alpha
keyboard, a single-line alpha display, thermal printer
and 5.25" disk drive. From the markings on the keyboard
it seems to be programmed in some dialect of Basic.

Does anyone know where I can find any information
about this machine? A web search turned up exactly
one page mentioning it, which didn't tell me much.

It didn't work at all when I first switched it on.
I found and repaired a fault in the power supply, but
that doesn't seem to be the end of its problems.

At switch-on, it beeps, and then starts flashing a
row of up-arrows in the display. There is *almost*
no response from the keyboard, except that after
about 20 or so keystrokes it flashes something like
KEYBOARD OV'FLO very briefly and then goes back to
the up-arrows.

Is there anyone out there with any experience with one
of these things who can tell me whether it's trying
to signal some sort of error condition with the up-
arrows, or is it just totally insane?

Thanks for any help,

Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+
University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a |
Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. |
greg_at_cosc.canterbury.ac.nz +--------------------------------------+
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