Fwd: questions about Sanyo MBC 55x collectors

[Scott Stevens]

On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 18:10:59
"Joe R." <rigdonj at cfl.rr.com> wrote:

>    Yuck!  I had a 555 and it's the worst "clone" ever made IMO!  Feed
>    it to
> the landfill!
> 
>     Joe
> 
> 

Machines like that have historical value.  I remember the Sanyo PC
Clones, too.  They wouldn't boot from anything except the specific Sanyo
version of MS-DOS.  They were 'closed' without expandability.  Still,
they were early enough systems to have some historical value, as a
'kinda clone' system.  The Columbia Data Systems was a 'kinda' too, and
I remember frowning on them back in the day at swapmeets and junkshops,
and I would LOVE to have one now (one of the very first IBM 'clones'
from before Compaq's success).

There's a lot of historical worth in machines from that era that were
'stinkers.'  In particular, people who have bad memories of them and
want them destroyed will ensure that they are more rare than usual
eventually.

I have similar bad memories of the AT&T 6300.  I remember all the time
wasted at work trying to get a high density floppy disk to work (not my
time, but the engineers who futzed with it grew to hate the machine.) 
And yet, there are people here who would be happy to have an AT&T 6300
now.  There are probably still people who consider them 'superior' to
the IBM-PC because they used an 8086 and a 16-bit wide data path.

Machines like the Sanyo belong in somebody's collection.  (no room here,
sadly)

> At 04:01 PM 10/8/05 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >>Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 23:57:02 -0400
> >>From: Stuart Pomerantz <stuartpomerantz at gmail.com>
> >>To: jfoust at threedee.com
> >>Subject: questions about Sanyo MBC 55x collectors
> >>
> >>Dear Mr. Foust,
> >> 
> >>I came across your website and your interest in old computers. I
> >have a
> Sanyo MBC-555 computer in perfect condition with both color and amber
> monitors, all the old documentation/packing and several years worth of
> SoftSector, a Sanyo MBC 55x enthusiast magazine. Is there anyone in
> the world interested in this hardware/material or is it time to add to
> the world's landfills? Hope you can be of help (and can have first
> dibs, if interested). 
> >> 
> >>Sincerely,
> >> 
> >>Stuart Pomerantz
> >
> >
>