ScuzzBlog: Diaries July 2019 Entry 31st July 2019: Post 01: Recovering the Sanyo MBC-555. Recovering the Sanyo MBC-555. I am starting to get a little frustrated with a number of items from the collection that are lost in storage. The other day I was so wanting to extract the C64C Hollywood box but am stymied by the stacks of tubs I have sitting in front of the storage area. One such computer that I need to check is an IBM clone that I currently only have the keyboard lying around. I have included images of the keyboard and referenced my older pictures taken years ago for the website. I am going to have to extract the unit cus whilst boards I have seen do not show a battery, they may have improved the system to include one. Don't know. Anyway .. check out John Elliott's Vintage Computers This is the Sanyo MBC-550 one of the very first clones of the IBM PC. Released in 1982 and shipped with CP/M-86 in Japan. Evidently the first MS-DOS based machine to sell for under a $1000. Silver case which also is reflected in the keyboard, which doesn't have an ALT key. Quite heavy and still looks pretty new. Two 5.25" floppy drives are all you generally see from the front of the unit making it look more like one of Sanyo's Hi-Fi stack units. The computer uses the Intel 8088 running at 3.58 MHz. I do have a couple of very large volumes of manuals including a number of disks. These too are in storage. Recovering the Sanyo MBC-555. Sanyo MBC-555

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