Fw: Re: Re: Is MSX on topic?

[Alexandre Souza]

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From: "Alexandre Souza" <>
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Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 5:50 AM
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Is MSX on topic?


>> which do you own? Are they easy (whatever that means)
>> to find?
>
>    Almost all of them. Experts are very easy to spot here in pawn shops 
> and "ferros velhos" (place where you sell scrap metal). Hotbits are more 
> scarce but no one likes it, it is too easy to break, the internal PCBs are 
> too fragile and almost all MSX hobbist likes to open his puter to mess 
> around.
>
>    Take a look at http://www.tabajara-labs.com.br and 
> http://www.msxpro.com (both in portuguese but you can at least take a look 
> at the figures, or use babelfish). There are many interesting photos of 
> MSX.
>
>    About my "collection", I have:
>    - Some expert 1.0
>    - Some expert 1.1
>    - one Expert Plus
>    - One expert DDPlus with pc power supply, floppy drive/controller, 
> megaRAM, SCC chip, 2+ kit, 256K memory mapper and lots of small mods
>    - Some hotbit (white model, 1.0/1.1)
>    - NO black hotbits :(
>    - Panasonic A1-WSX (2+, great puter)
>    - Philips VG8235 (2.0)
>
>    And lots of other brazilian puters non-related to MSX