U40213@uicvm.uic.edu (Matthew Thomas Mead, Esq.) (02/09/91)
Hello, An acquaintance of mine's father got a great deal on a Sanyo MBC 555 computer. Has anyone heard of this computer. If so what is the operating system, and what are it's capabilities. Thanks in Advance Matthew Thomas Mead, Esq.
jnelson@plains.NoDak.edu (Jim Nelson) (02/16/91)
In article <91039.201149U40213@uicvm.uic.edu> U40213@uicvm.uic.edu (Matthew Thomas Mead, Esq.) writes: >Hello, > An acquaintance of mine's father got a great deal on a Sanyo MBC 555 >computer. How much did they pay him to take it away? :) Has anyone heard of this computer. If so what is the operating >system, and what are it's capabilities. Can you say "sort of MS-DOS, but not really"? My uncle has a 550, by Sanyo. It seem that the poor machine is limited to 512k, and only has a couple bus slots. It didn't seem to like hardrives allthat much, although the hard drive in my uncles machine was of questionable relyability. The 555 is a tiny bit better. But only a tiny bit. IMHO, it's a reasonable boat anchor, if you fill it with cement. Sanyo should have stuck to making stereos. -- .sig? What .sig? Ohhhh, *THIS* .sig. Jim, in the Land of the Lost. disclaimer: These are just opinions. If you want 'em, you can have 'em.
kevin@msa3b.UUCP (Kevin P. Kleinfelter) (02/19/91)
jnelson@plains.NoDak.edu (Jim Nelson) writes: >In article <91039.201149U40213@uicvm.uic.edu> U40213@uicvm.uic.edu (Matthew Thomas Mead, Esq.) writes: >>Hello, >> An acquaintance of mine's father got a great deal on a Sanyo MBC 555 >>computer. >How much did they pay him to take it away? :) > Has anyone heard of this computer. If so what is the operating >>system, and what are it's capabilities. >Can you say "sort of MS-DOS, but not really"? My uncle has a 550, by Sanyo. >It seem that the poor machine is limited to 512k, and only has a couple bus >slots. It didn't seem to like hardrives allthat much, although the hard >drive in my uncles machine was of questionable relyability. The 555 is a >tiny bit better. But only a tiny bit. >IMHO, it's a reasonable boat anchor, if you fill it with cement. Sanyo >should have stuck to making stereos. Agreed. However, in a slightly more helpful vein: It runs MSDOS, but it may have to be "Sanyo MSDOS." In the olden days, it would run Turbo-Pascal, as long as TP was configured for "MSDOS" and not for "IBM/PC." The major bugaboo I encountered with this machine was that its screen I/O was BIOS compatible with the PC, but NOT hardware compatible. I wrote a pretty fair sized application on it that did all its I/O via INT 10H, instead of direct screen writes. It ran a little slow, but was entirely usable. Try booting generic MSDOS (not PCDOS). If that fails, you'll have to locate a copy of Sanyo MSDOS. You may have to use an OLD copy of Turbo Pascal to program it, because I think that all modern software products assume hardware compatibility. -- Kevin Kleinfelter @ Dun and Bradstreet Software, Inc (404) 239-2347 {emory,gatech}!nanovx!msa3b!kevin Look closely at the return address. It is nanovx and NOT nanovAx.