ScuzzBlog: Diaries October 2023 Entry 5th October 2023: Post 1: Sanyo MBC 555 - There is a monitor ? Sanyo MBC 555 - There is a monitor ? I was reading an old old old blog of mine from 2006 and discovered in an entry regarding the Sanyo MBC 550 that the computer came with a monitor. You gotta be kidding me. This computer has been illuding detection for over a decade and I still haven't been able to track it down to take pictures. And now I find out it came with a monitor. No way !! This was an entry for December 2nd 2006. SANYO MBC 550 Hi Finally on other acquisitions... The Sanyo MBC 550 is as follows. Arriving in two parcels as it also includes a monitor... NAME MBC-555 MANUFACTURER Sanyo TYPE Home Computer ORIGIN Japan YEAR 1982 END OF PRODUCTION 1988 BUILT IN LANGUAGE Sanyo Basic KEYBOARD QWERTY full-stroke keyboard with numeric keypad CPU Intel 8088 CO-PROCESSOR Optional Intel 8087 math coprocessor RAM 128 KB or 256 KB depending models ROM 8 KB TEXT MODES 40 x 25 / 80 x 25 GRAPHIC MODES 144 x 200 / 576 x 200 / 640 x 400 COLORS 8 SOUND Buzzer, can only generate a single buzztone sound (fixed duration) I have been very close at times to extracting the Sanyo from storage just to pack everything away and forget to do so. The machine sits behind a stack of other tubs and what is worse I have looked down to its last know position and it is not there. Now I gotta find this monitor. I kid you not this computer has a mind of its own. Even I don't know what I have got. [ previously ] 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. Sanyo MBC 555 - There is a monitor ? Sanyo MBC-555

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