Found Today - Sony SMC-2000, etc.

From: Brian Mahoney <webhead_at_theantiquecomputer.com>
Date: Thu Jun 3 21:18:18 2004

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From: "Marvin Johnston" <marvin_at_rain.org>
To: "ClassicCmp" <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 2:29 AM
Subject: Found Today - Sony SMC-2000, etc.


>
> Something I've wanted for quite a while is a Sony SMC-2000 computer with
> the LDP-2000 laserdisc player. Today I finally got it! This unit had
> been used by a local school and they needed to get rid of it. It came
> with some laserdiscs and ... four service manuals for both the computer
> and laserdisc player! Apparently this runs MS-DOS 2.11 and I don't think
> that came with it. But unless that is a special OEM version of MS-DOS,
> it won't be a problem. Also included were 8 laserdiscs including three
> volumes of Dream Machine and two volumes of Space Archive discs.
>
> They also had several shrinkwrapped packages of IBM DOS 3.30, and I put
> one of them on VCM. Also listed on VCM was a copy of the IBM Guide to
> Operations for the Personal Computer XT, and Volume 1 of the Hardware
> Maintenance and Service for the Personal Computer XT (these are
> duplicates of what I already have.) BTW, the money received for these
> will go back to the school computer lab.
>
> They had quite a bit of stuff that will either be sold or sent to that
> great storage location in the sky. It looked like there were quite a few
> ISA sound cards, network hubs (10 Mb/sec), etc.

What monitor did this come with, if any? I have a review of the SMC-70 in a
December 1983 issue of Popular Computing and have been interested in the
Sony since I read about it there. The article mentions a KX-1211HG monitor
with 525 horizontal lines and 625 in the his res mode. Pitch is 0.4 mill.
Seems like that was the highlight of the review, this incredible monitor.

bm
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