Thanks - it was a 1 hour talk that ended up being compressed into 30 mins - I was impressed that it came out so coherently, as there was a little bit of panic in my head of trying to get as much of the preso out as I could while still making the story understandable :)
what was that pc in the 80s that Ted's Camera stores were trying to sell as "better" than C-64 and had 50 big company names behind it..and was total flop? companies included JVC and Sony.
Didnt really take off here at all, but extremely popular in Japan - for Japan it was the PC standard before the IBM PC becoming dominant in the early/mid 90's. And it was responsible for killing off a lot of the less popular 8 bit designs in Japan (i.e. as a broad brush statement if you werent one of the big players - eg. NEC, Sharp and Fuj - you eventually folded and switched to an MSX design by the mid-80's). MSX did have some minor success in Europe, and also in Brazil, but the standard was largely invisible in Australia / England / US. Its actually a pretty capable platform with a lot of software (particularly on MSX2) still worth looking at today.
Great talk from start to finish. I really learned somethings.
Thanks - it was a 1 hour talk that ended up being compressed into 30 mins - I was impressed that it came out so coherently, as there was a little bit of panic in my head of trying to get as much of the preso out as I could while still making the story understandable :)
Thanks for this seminar Pat. Good work compressing it down that much. Came out well and I enjoyed watching it.
I still have my Hitachi Peach.
We should talk! I know a small number of Peach folks. Really difficult platform to get software for, but i have a few leads :)
That was my dream computer when I was about 11 or 12 (-:
what was that pc in the 80s that Ted's Camera stores were trying to sell as "better" than C-64 and had 50 big company names behind it..and was total flop? companies included JVC and Sony.
I don’t know. Maybe it was an MSX?
@@Kman_aus : that's the one, thanks
Didnt really take off here at all, but extremely popular in Japan - for Japan it was the PC standard before the IBM PC becoming dominant in the early/mid 90's. And it was responsible for killing off a lot of the less popular 8 bit designs in Japan (i.e. as a broad brush statement if you werent one of the big players - eg. NEC, Sharp and Fuj - you eventually folded and switched to an MSX design by the mid-80's). MSX did have some minor success in Europe, and also in Brazil, but the standard was largely invisible in Australia / England / US. Its actually a pretty capable platform with a lot of software (particularly on MSX2) still worth looking at today.
2004 or 2024?
2024! :)
Yep 2024 😅 😳