{"id":901,"date":"2012-10-08T11:35:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T16:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=901"},"modified":"2012-10-08T13:30:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T18:30:54","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-sanyo-mbc-1100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/901\/retro-scan-of-the-week-sanyo-mbc-1100","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> That Sanyo Feeling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/sanyo_mbc_1100_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/sanyo_mbc_1100_small.jpg\" alt=\"Sanyo MBC-1100 Desk-Top Business Computer Ad, Sanyo EHD 511 Hard Disk - 1983\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>&#8220;My whole torso is numb, and it feels great!&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.old-computers.com\/museum\/computer.asp?st=1&#038;c=902\" target=\"_blank\">Sanyo MBC-1100<\/a> (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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Personal Computing, November 1983, p.213 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Have you ever used a Japanese-designed vintage computer?  Tell us about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;My whole torso is numb, and it feels great!&#8221; 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, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,27,26,10],"tags":[139,238,240,237,241,236,138,60,235,239],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-humor","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers","tag-139","tag-8-bit-computers","tag-cpm","tag-ehd-511","tag-japanese-computers","tag-mbc-1100","tag-personal-computing","tag-retro-scan","tag-sanyo","tag-z80"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}