Hmmm, MSX.... I only knew of MSX here in Australia (circa 1985/6 ish) because the shop where I hung out, ogling Toshiba T300 PC compatibles has an MSX machine they were trying to sell. I recall its colorful keyboard
Kindest regards, Doug Jackson em: d...@doughq.com ph: 0414 986878 Follow my amateur radio adventures at vk1zdj.net On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 at 09:24, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > On 2024-10-09 2:30 p.m., Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > > > >> MSX is unknown in USA! > >> It was for Z80, and the disk format was MS-DOS > >> . . . > >> Generic PC clones got so cheap here that nobody would buy Z80 any more. > > On Wed, 9 Oct 2024, ben via cctalk wrote: > > I thought it was the cheap apple clones that did it, as most CP/M was on the > > S-100 bus. > > MSX was later; PC was thoroughly dominant by then, and Apple was solidly > estalishing Macintosh. > > MSX-DOS was created by Tim Paterson as a port to Z80 of MS-DOS > 1.25. The rest, and hardware, was primarily Japanese, but later marketed > everywhere except USA. > > https://www.msx.org/wiki/The_History_of_MSX-DOS > > -- > Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosoft.com
