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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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2022年08月07日 - 元箱ありSMC-777C I had a temporary visitor, an SMC-777C with original box and a handful of original disks. The disks included were the default system disks and a couple of games: SMC Super Golf and Salad no Kuni no Tomato Hime (Princess Tomato of the Salad Kingdom). The box for this system isn’t all that common so I decided to make a post for posterity’s sake. 続き⇒ |
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2022年06月24日 - カシオ FP-1100 Now here’s a strange beast. With an unwieldly large keyboard and a really unexpected function of BASIC, this is certainly a unique machine. A friend of mine mentioned looking for games for it but they were terribly expensive, so you know that always catches my ear. Oddly, despite being a fairly rare machine, I found two auctions for them ending two days in a row. The first one was boxed with manuals and looked amazing, but it went for about 60000 yen. 続き⇒ |
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2022年06月14日 - シャープMZ-2500 Dubbed the “Super Computer”, the MZ-2500 commands a fairly high price, so I had to wait for just the right circumstances. I found a junk one at a somewhat reasonable price, and it worked just well enough to give me a flavor of what it has to offer… enough to confirm that I wanted a fully-working one. I grabbed another one that was also junk, and between the two, I was able to get a fully working one, which my friend has since recapped and helped to future-proof. 続き⇒ |
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2022年01月27日 - パソピア７の宝物 If it seems I’m on a Pasopia7 kick recently, you’re right! It’s one of my recent favorites. I asked one of my friends who has a large collection, including many Pasopia7 games, if he had the manuals, and somewhat surprisingly to me, he didn’t. And then a few days later, this showed up on Mercari: 続き⇒ |
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2021年12月30日 - パソピア７ Toshiba was not one of the top players in the Japanese computer industry in the 80s. They started with the Pasopia, and later they introduced their second-generation 8-bit machine, the Pasopia7, neither gaining widespread adoption. They continued with their 16-bit offering – the J-3100 – but that was tightly connected to the contemporary IBM PC architecture, and while it had its own modest software library, it can, in fact, boot a Windows 98 boot disk and launch DOS software. 続き⇒ |
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2021年11月23日 - SMC-777C I had been looking with curiosity at the SMC-777 series from afar, interested in the machine but not interested in the price. And then one day, on Mercari, I happened to find an SMC-777C for 10000 yen! For this machine, that’s a steal. So I bought it. 続き⇒ |
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2021年10月17日 - PC-8001 A legend in the history of Japanese computing. This machine is built like a tank with its metal exterior giving it quite a bit of weight. It doesn’t try to be fancy but its simple and clean aesthetic is charming. 続き⇒ |
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