Re: Apple II (and other old computer) books

[ds_spenc@alcor.concordia.ca (Doug Spence)]

Sheldon Simms (sheldon@atlcom.net) wrote:

: Sanyo MBC 550/555 User's Handbook, by WSI (what the heck is a Sanyo MBC 550?)

The Sanyo MBC 550 is a 3.6MHz 8088-based machine that runs MS-DOS.
Apparently it shipped with 128K, but was expandable to 256K.
It had an 80-column display, and 640x200 8-colour graphics.
The 550 came with a single 160K 3�-inch floppy drive, and the 555 came 
with two drives.
It shipped with WordStar and CalcStar, BASIC and some other software.
The thing looks like an old VCR with a keyboard or something.

I've never seen one, I've only seen it's picture and some basic stats in 
a book I borrowed from my university's library.  Reference is:
Longley, _The Microcomputer Users Handbook 1985_, p.286.  (Sorry, that's 
all I wrote down - so I could find it again.)

If anyone has any more info on the machine, I'd love to hear it.  
Unfortunately, though, this is off-topic for most of the newsgroups this 
is posted to. ;)

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: W. Sheldon Simms III - sheldon@atlcom.net

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