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2023年09月30日 - ナショナル JR-100 The JR-100 is another product of the "incredibly compact and lightweight computer body but with an external PSU twice the weight of the computer" philosophy of computer manufacturing. The Sanyo PHC-25 still holds the title of actually most compact and lightweight computer in my collection. 続き⇒ |
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2023年09月23日 - コモドールVIC-1001 I had quite resolved not to get a VIC-1001 early on in my collection (back when I had a tame 10 or so computers). But recently I've sort of felt like, "maybe I'll just grab this one, fire it up, and photograph it for the blog" for a number of machines, so when I found this one at a not-terrible price on Mercari, I decided to grab it. 続き⇒ |
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2023年09月18日 - NEW VIP・FM-7 As my job is basically creating makeshift databases and reporting on them via PHP and JavaScript, I was kind of amused at how much more easily I could do my job if the whole office would just upgrade to FM-7s and deal with the limitations of this early-80s database software. It's very much like my job but using notepad instead of mysql, and using notepad instead of a browser. But it was fun to poke around on for a bit! 続き⇒ |
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2023年09月18日 - デモテープv3.0・X1 I am not actually sure what this is! It says "demo tape" but I don't believe it was shipped with any of the systems. The system tapes are black with black or blue and silver labels, but this is a white cassette with an orange-red label. My best guess is perhaps this was used by stores to display an endless loop demonstrating some of the X1 capabilities. I could imagine spending hours gazing at the various machines running their demos at a big Yodobashi Camera or the like. Anyway, here is some of the content. 続き⇒ |
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2023年09月09日 - MZ-1500のゲームソフト I've been really fascinated with the MZ-1500 recently. Among the reasons is the QuickDisk drive. The QuickDisk medium was not very widely used in the home computer market, but I think it stakes an interesting and meaningful ground between tape and floppy disk. Like a tape, the medium is sequential in reading and writing, but the speed is more comparable to a floppy disk. The QuickDisk drive makes an ear-pleasing symphony of read/write sounds as it does its job. If you have a Famicom Disk System, you've surely already heard these sounds, as the FDS main unit is just a slightly modified QuickDisk drive, and their disks just slightly modified QuickDisks. 続き⇒ |
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2023年09月02日 - タカラゲームパソコン So I'll start by saying, this is a pretty interesting system! I don't think it's an excellent system, but it separates itself from being either a standard computer or a console pretty well. It is designed by a company with "real" computer roots - SORD - and is in fact an identical clone of the SORD M5, so the end result is, despite being essentially a toy, it has a much less cheap feel to it than its peers: the Sega SC-3000 and Tomy Pyuta. 続き⇒ |
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2023年08月26日 - NEC PC-8001mkIISR My heart won't listen to my brain's rules, so now I have a PC-8001mkIISR. I had originally decided that I don't need this machine because I have a PC-8001 already. Sure, the mkIISR is fancier and more featureful, but it's bigger and it starts to encroach on some of the PC-8801FH's territory. 続き⇒ |
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2023年08月12日 - 日立 C15-B01 This is another part-TV, part-monitor, but unlike most of this variety, this one is from Hitachi, not NEC. It's a lovely red color, but depending on the viewing angle, there are some obvious scuffs to the body. 続き⇒ |
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2023年08月06日 - FM TOWNS マーティー I'm not much of a console guy. Oh, sure, I have a Famicom, there are certain experiences you can only get on a Famicom, and it's the Japanese counterpart to a big part of my childhood nostalgia -- the NES -- so yes, I have a Famicom, but I'm otherwise not big on consoles. Oh and a PC Engine because it's so small. So small until you put it in the docking station with the CD-ROM drive. So I have that, too, but mostly I'm not into consoles. And there was that console from Toshiba that I'll write about soon, that looked so cool I had to get it, but as you can see I'm clearly not much of a console person. 続き⇒ |
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2023年06月28日 - 三洋 PHC-25 I bought this system with a library of boring utilities on Mercari back in December of last year. It was pretty pricey so I was watching it drop in price... very... slowly. As were many other people. Finally another PHC-25 appears on Yahoo Auctions so I monitored that auction, and toward the end it had risen to nearly the same price as the one on Mercari, but without the tapes, so I decided to buy it from Mercari. 続き⇒ |
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