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2020年07月20日 - 富士通 FM-NEW7 I bought and didn’t even write a blog post about the Fujitsu FM-7, and I’ve already traded it in for an FM-NEW7. Now, I wasn’t there thinking, “God, I’ve just GOT to get the latest and greatest version of this machine!” when I switched to the NEW7. In fact, they’re practically the same machine. It was a chance happening of a good deal on Mercari, an untested FM-NEW7, which was in better condition than my (then) current, somewhat-yellowed FM-7. 続き⇒ |
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2020年07月04日 - SHARP PC-3100S In addition to the X1 and the MZ series of computers, Sharp had another line of 8-bit computers. This would have been released around the time of the NEC PC-8801, but is wildly different. Information on this system appears scant. 続き⇒ |
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2020年06月23日 - dB BASIC・レーザープラネット・X1 After finally getting an X1 tape drive, I can now play Laser Planet! I bought it a few months ago on Mercari even though I couldn’t immediately use it, because it was a good deal. 続き⇒ |
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2020年06月16日 - SHARP CZ-8RL1 The X1 series of computer has a proprietary CMT (tape player) port, and the tape players are also kind of special, and they are prone to failure. So if you see a working one on Yahoo for auction, you shouldn’t be surprised to see it get up to about 40000 yen. 続き⇒ |
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2020年06月02日 - TOSHIBA J3100-SGT101 Some time ago, I saw somebody post pictures of their machine that had a built-in plasma screen. I was pretty smitten and I kept my eye out for one and came across this. It wasn’t super cheap but the screen was really nice and the price wasn’t that bad, either. 続き⇒ |
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2020年05月27日 - 東芝パソピア The Pasopia by Toshiba seems not to be as famous as others like the PC-6001, MZ-700, X1, or FM-7. But cool, it’s a road a little less traveled. Mine’s a little banged up, but overall pretty clean. 続き⇒ |
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2020年05月24日 - FM Towns RAMアップグレード I’d been watching with mild annoyance as this guy dropped his price 100 yen per day for a couple of months to keep his items at the top of the search list in Mercari (or whatever reason he had). It was kind of annoying because the machine itself is pretty banged up, and with a starting price of 20000 yen, it seemed like it would take forever to finally sell so I wouldn’t have to look at the listing anymore. 続き⇒ |
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2020年04月14日 - SHARP CZ-600Dの内臓 Some games that run at 15kHz (Syvalion is the only one that comes to mind right now; most 15kHz games didn’t have this problem) were too wide on my monitor. The edges of the game were not visible. I thought I would just adjust the horizontal size, but of the kajillion buttons under the front panel, not one of them adjusts horizontal size. So I took it apart (something I loathe doing with CRTs because of the risk of death if you’re not careful, and frankly I’m not always careful, although I suspect I’m more careful than usual with an open CRT) and looked for the horizontal size pot on the inside. 続き⇒ |
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2020年03月23日 - TownsOSのHDDインストール Something I’ve wanted to do for a while but I didn’t realize I already possessed everything I needed to do so. I have installed Towns OS 2.1 (for FM Towns) on an external SCSI hard disk drive. 続き⇒ |
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2020年02月24日 - デモンストレーションプログラム・PC-6001 This is NEC’s official demonstration tape for the PC-6001, which offers the user a glimpse into what is possible with their new computer. 続き⇒ |
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