[ Retro Scan of the Week ] That Sanyo Feeling
October 8th, 2012 by Benj Edwards
“My whole torso is numb, and it feels great!”
The Sanyo MBC-1100 (1982) was a Z80-A-based business machine that ran CP/M as its operating system. It was one of many, many Z80 business machines from that era designed to run CP/M.
Japanese computer manufacturers were just breaking into the U.S. computer market at the time, so the Sanyo MBC-1100 would have likely been a curiosity in an American office setting.
Discussion Topic of the Week: Have you ever used a Japanese-designed vintage computer? Tell us about it.
October 8th, 2012 at 12:10 pm
I want one!
October 8th, 2012 at 1:27 pm
Turok, that’s the only one I can think of.
October 8th, 2012 at 9:46 pm
I have a Sony HIT-BIT 201, which is an MSX 1 system. It’s a pretty awesome machine. Really makes me wish the MSX line came to America. Oh well, not much we can do about that nowadays, right?
October 9th, 2012 at 2:06 am
I have a Sanyo MBC-555 that Ive had no luck getting to boot off of its floppy’s. The guts are designed really strangely too…
October 9th, 2012 at 8:36 am
Oh sure… change the question and make my answer look stupid.
October 9th, 2012 at 12:21 pm
Sorry, Eagles. I had forgotten to change it initially and was using last week’s question as a template. There probably is a Japanese computer out there called “Turok,” though, if that makes you feel any better.
(OK, probably not.)