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Sanyo Personal Computers

My first computer was a Sanyo MBC-1150 (on the right). It had two 5 1/4 floppy drives and ran the CP/M operating system. I paid about $3500 for it. It came with Wordstar, a spreasheet and database program.

 

I never used the database or spreadsheet. I was only interested in learning how to use Wordstar so I could put away my typewriter. Learning Wordstar was quite a task and it took a while.

 

However, I taught myself the program and the first article I ever had published was completed with Wordstar.

 

The MBC-1100 and MBC-1150 were two 8-bit machines intended for business market. There was no difference between the 1100 and 1150 models except that they left the factory with 1 or 2 drives installed. Eventually, the Sanyo was put aside for a Tandy 1000, later, an Apple IIc and eventually a Gateway Computer and finally a Mac.

 

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Uploaded on March 18, 2012
Taken on May 9, 2009