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2024-12-01 - Tomy Pyuta mkII I picked up a Tomy Pyuta mkII on Mercari recently. This is a follow-up to the original Pyuta, similar to how the Commodore 64C followed the Commodore 64. Except while the Commodore 64C was a cost-saving implementation of the Commodore 64, this one looked like it provided a minor upgrade. From the outside, at a glance, it looks like they just swapped out the keyboard, offering a short-travel plastic keyboard, which was much more usable than the rubber chiclet keyboard that the original sported. continued ⇒ |
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2024-11-19 - MZ Series Thingie The Sharp MZ series has a counterpart to the X1 Widget which is the MZ Thingie. Perhaps it's a paper weight, though it seems a bit too vertical for that. Perhaps just a decoration that could be used as a paper weight at your own risk? I'm pretty sure it's not a pen holder, as the X1 Widget turned out to be. continued ⇒ |
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2024-11-09 - Towns OS 1.1 L10 There was a surprising amount of extra content on the FM Towns 1.1 L10 CD. I guess it shouldn't be that surprising, as they had space to burn (literally!), but it's a curious thing, computer manufacturers at the (1987-ish) rarely had 500MB+ of storage with nothing better to do than fill it up, so what would they come up with? Well here's Fujitsu's answer. continued ⇒ |
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2024-10-31 - Applications for MZ-80K2E This is a collection of programs bundled with the MZ-80K2E that demonstrate various things that could be done with the system. Most systems of the day had such tapes, some better than others. This system is light on multimedia, so it doesn't pack too much of a punch, but it makes due with what it has. It loads from BASIC, so you need to ready that first. continued ⇒ |
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2024-10-24 - MZ-700/MZ-1500 Joystick - MZ-1X03 As part of a bulk lot of MZ-1500 items I picked up recently, I got this MZ-1X03 joystick. It is in great condition. continued ⇒ |
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2024-10-23 - Sharp MZ-1500 Sharp is heavily represented in my collection, and for a couple of good reasons. They are divided into two groups: computer division (MZ series and the oddball PC-3100) and home electronics division (X1 and X68000), which I don't think happened at any other manufacturer. Another is that they're just so cool-looking. continued ⇒ |
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2024-10-02 - Sony CPS-14F1 The Sony CPS-14F1 has a beautiful picture and primarily connects by JP-21 or multiRGB, however you want to call it. It also had composite video input. This makes it a pretty flexible monitor, being able to accommodate computer systems like the FM77AV series and Sony's SMC-777 series, as well as all of the MSX2 and above systems, and a whole slew of game consoles. continued ⇒ |
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2024-09-18 - Sharp X68030 This article covers two X68030s: one that didn't work properly from the get-go, I poured a lot of money into it, and it still didn't work right, and the other that did work properly right off the bat, but cost a lot of money anyway. continued ⇒ |
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2024-09-15 - X68030 Card-sized Calculator I got this calculator as part of an X68030 system set. At first I didn't think too much of it, I've seen these calculators semi-frequently, but I went to do a Google search for it because I wanted to know how people refer to these devices. So I searched for "X68030 電卓" and when I wasn't making any headway with that, I tried "X68030 calculator", but this too returned surprisingly little in terms of reference. continued ⇒ |
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2024-09-12 - Sony HB-T7 The Sony HB-T7 is a fairly introductory-level MSX2 machine, but it decidedly had its own twist. It was one of few machines that specifically targeted computer telecommunications enthusiasts. It had a dial-up modem before much of the general population was aware of what the Internet was. BBS fans or those interested in taking advantage of very specific services, I guess. It has a high-tech look to it with its sleek black and grey theme and translucent red covers for LED indicators that I couldn't really use. continued ⇒ |
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