0093 Two international wedge computers from 1987

[@playingwithdata]

I love the aesthetics of many of the Japanese 80s home computers -- often a little busy but so purposeful and techy. The orange on black of that MSX is lovely.

[@ukaszSkowerski]

"I'm really not into collectibles" says the man hoarding computers and fixing them 😅

[@rommix0]

Wellllll. At least he ain't Clint. I still feel bad for what happened to his collection after the hurricane.

[@TheGreatAtario]

Computers are not (just) collectibles!

[@joeconti2396]

I don't know why but I'm so so happy Adrian is an F1 fan.

[@KarlDavies-dn3eg]

I smiled too when he mentioned that he watched it all including sprints and practices etc. My wife thinks I'm the only person to do so lol

[@starsundsternchen802]

Me too!

[@angelocosta3776]

Oh my god! I still have today a olivetti pc1 dual diskette drives. My very first computer in 1992. Still working today!

[@LarixusSnydes]

What I really love about Olivetti is the design of their keyboards and calculators (I own two programmable Olivetti scientific calculators from the 80's). The colour coding of the function groups is well chosen, with good contrast and well legible fonts 😀.

[@glenn9854]

We had an Olivetti typewriter in the office I used to work for. It was used constantly for almost 25 years. It was truly beautiful to look at as well as being a real "workhorse"

[@gabrielebiffi9018]

Adrian checking out an Olivetti PC1 and having some classic Italian candies is like a dream come true! My father used to work at Olivetti in the late 80s and brought home a PCS 286, that's what started my passion for computers, and now there's one always sitting on my desk. Can't wait for the full video... but I didn't expect you to kill it first :D

[@TiBosRetroComputers]

FINALLY An Olivetti has arrived at your basement. As a collector of Olivetti computers myself the Olivetti Prodest PC1 is not yet in my collection #Olivetti

[@douro20]

Yes, the MSX-Pico emulates all of the sound addons made for the MSX (Dual PSG, FM-PAC and Konami SCC).

[@SH-R.DateCure-Shiori]

Hi from Japan! Happy to see MSX in your video! Many MSXes used to have 2 cartridge slots, and they can be used in various way just like C64 as all address/data buses were exposed to the slot, like simple RAM expansion, non-application ROM(mostly fonts), sound module like SCC from KONAMI/FM-PAC FM/NVRAM combo from Panasonic, modem/RS-232C, external floppy drive....there were so many kinds of cartridges and modern homebrew projects are still active today. Also, some games goes special mode when another specific game cart is inserted in 2nd slot.

[@ivanuoc]

I love the MSX! It was very popular in Spain where it competed with the other 3 major 8-bit computers here (ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64). It was truly a standard and was supported by big household appliance brands (Sony, Philips, Panasonic, Sanyo,...). In fact it was the only Japanese home computer that made it to the West (other Japanese computers which were successful in Japan were never sold outside the land of the rising sun: PC-88/98, FM-Towns, X68000,...). Although MSX was popular in many regions/countries worldwide (Europe, South America, Middle East, Japan, Korea, Russia,...) it is almost unknown in the US

[@alexhofstee466]

Same here. I grew up with the MSX over here in the Netherlands. There doesn't seem to be much love for the MSX with KZbinrs and they don't get a lot of attention. But I have many fond memories of playing games on my MSX systems. There are a lot of fun games and the hardware seems quite reliable still. My Toshiba HX-10 still works just fine.

[@joysticksnjukeboxes]

I just happened to see a video on KZbin the other day with someone exploring an abandoned Olivetti factory in Italy and giving a bit of a history lesson.

[@rigues]

Great to see an MSX! I have the predecessor of your machine (FS-A1), it is a great, reliable little computer.

[@rigues]

Replying to myself: the DIN connectors are a cassete port and an analog RGB out (15 kHz). The RGB port follows the standard MSX Pinout, which you can easily find in the MSX Wiki. The batteries are for the real-time clock. I hope that the HIC1 board wasn't badly damaged by the caps, they can have some NASTY results. In the worst case scenario, I believe there is a clone board available. You can use Sega Genesis Gamepads on it, provided you build a little adapter called JoyMega, by FRS. It just reroutes some pins and uses a TTL chip to invert a signal. With it, you can even use all six buttons on compatible games.

[@simonsunnyboy]

Great video as always. I'd rather prefer seeing repairs of the machines shown here than more C64s or Apples on the main channel. Mainly you already have a lot of those types of videos but few MSX or rare XT clones in comparison.

[@reefabus]

The BMW M12 motor in the Brabham BT55 was pushing almost 1500hp in quali trim. Four cylinder turbo monster.

[@MrKanjidude]

I love the chunky, techy 80s aesthetic of that MSX. Goes right in line with my nostalgia for blocky squarebody pickup trucks and G1 Transformers. ✌️

[@greenmoose_]

I love these unboxing videos and am quite excited to see the main channel videos on both of these computers!!

[@SimonGreener]

Excellent SMMC with the MSX, and now looking forward to the main channel detailed video on the MSX!

[@imqqmi]

Looking forwards seeing that msx2 computer restored! And how the pi Pico cartridge performs!

[@PaulinesPastimes]

How nice is the Panasonic. The GUI is lovely. Looking forward to seeing the Olivetti too.

[@TBMartin]

I did not know you are a F1 fan. That's cool. Been a fan myself for 40 years now

[@tstahlfsu]

4:26 Who else misses the candy reviews???

[@emdxemdx]

Olivetti has been an icon of industrial design since the end of the war. Their office products look years ahead of when they were manufactured…

[@cencio_1976]

If you Google "Olivetti showroom" and look at the images, it's like looking at today's Apple stores, but in black and white.

[@MaggieKeizai]

Oh hey, I have that same MSX2 machine. One of the cool things about that particular model is that you can upgrade it to MSX2+ specs, which is why I opted to get that particular machine. So now we know that there are at least 2 of these in the same metro area!

[@kvahlman]

Can't wait for the Olivetti video, the brand has a special place in my heart as my first PC was an Olivetti PCS 33 which had the weirdest power button I've ever seen. So hoping to see some wonky design decisions in a deeper dive to that machine. The strong brand design is clearly visible already in that case.

[@andersmmvfc.8376]

So happy your enjoy f1 just like I do, my dad watched f1 on Anderstorp here in sweden in the 1976, they rolled out one car with 6 weels, great content as always!!

[@adriansdigitalbasement2]

Yeah I've been into watching it for about 20 years now and it's amazing to see the pinnacle of motorsports racing. It's at least getting more popular in the US (with 3 races per season happening here now) so that's nice at least!

[@andersmmvfc.8376]

@adriansdigitalbasement2 I think the most important thing is that you get a decent driver a couple of years with a good personality, it is great with iconic racetracks like the one in Texas but a driver can rally the hole country for decades. Looking forward to the Panasonic computer on your main channel!

[@manoliskypraios8153]

Hi Adrian, I am looking forward to see the Olivetti Prodest up and running as I used to have one back in the day! I was doing a lot of work on it with Wordstar, Lotus 123 and DBase III Plus. I had the 2 floppy Version with MSDOS 3.2. Played some CGA Games and many Point and click Adventure games Like Kings Quest, Monkey Island etc... By the way the second Floppy Slot could be populated with a Hard Disk which I could not afford at the time :) The good old days :):)

[@Dawwwg]

There so many cute and interesting MSX models, from tiny candy colored 16KB MSX 1 to professional grade MSX2 with digitizers, 2+ and of course the TurboR. Including tons of interesting audio chips and hw expansion. I loved programming for them.

[@arkanoid1980]

Grande Olivetti! P.s. michele reads mick (with hard C or K) + ele like electric. Your pronunciation of Galatine is correct. Goleador are unrelated to football actually from what I know, just a name (Goleador is a player who sets a lot of goals)

[@johnwells558]

Love the range of MSX computers, havent got one my self, looking forward to see you fixing it.

[@starsundsternchen802]

I'm really eager to see a video about the KC85 coming soon!

[@james_lockman]

Our computer in middle school (1980) was an Olivetti programmable calculator. It had a big magnetic sheet (the size of a punch card) on which it stored programs. We had one game: Nim.

[@pauloalmeida8644]

The PC1 was my first computer

[@networkg]

If you enjoy the MSX games, you can play them on your Nabu computer with some conversion. On the Nabu server, there is a library of available MSX titles.

[@BollingHolt]

I am being donated an Olivetti TES 501. From 1976, I believe, it is a word processor utilizing 8" floppy disks and is built into a free-standing piece of furniture.

[@adriansdigitalbasement2]

And I bet the word processor and the furniture was extremely stylish and awesome looking!

[@dan_loup]

The two slots are for well anything you want. the MSX just have some pretty nifty memory "slots" to deal with expansions both internal and external, so you could for example add a disk drive to the system if didn't had one, could add a FM music cart, add more memory, there's even some wild bizarre cartridges that turn your MSX 1 into an MSX 2

[@j__r0d]

Loving the design on both of these computers! Can't wait to see them get all fixed up in main channel vids!

[@TheMM360]

Watch out, those Galatine cause addiction.

[@adriansdigitalbasement2]

Yeah -- they are gone, that was the first package of candy to be eaten entirely. :-)

[@KarlDavies-dn3eg]

I'm looking forward to the videos featuring this msx and it's Pico board. Something new for us to sink out proverbial teeth into.

[@rzerobzero]

Recently I saw myself squinting on a zoom call and I realized it was time to get my eyes checked. What a world of difference! It's with nothing but love and respect that I suggest you do the same.

[@adriansdigitalbasement2]

Oh I see the eye doctor every year -- my issue is shooting video my top down camera is large and in front of my face, so I have to sit pretty far back from the monitor which makes it harder to read fine text.

[@Synthematix]

Olivetti were used for television on screen titling of sports events

[@bufordmaddogtannen]

Yep. You nailed the pronunciation for Galatine. They are kind of an acquired taste though. 😀 I don't think I have seen anything similar around the world. Also, the Function keys on the Olivetti came in that shadow of yellow from the factory.

[@rivimey]

shadow => shade 'shadow' what you get when something blocks the light; A 'shade' (of a colour) is a small variation in it, such as light green to olive green. It doesn't necessarily mean darker. [to be confusing You can be 'in the shade', meaning you are within a shadow cast by something else]

[@bufordmaddogtannen]

⁠indeed. I had the feeling that something was off when I wrote the comment. On the other hand, English is only the third language I learned, so I'm sure there is still room for improvement.

[@lbanting]

A school I went to used to have Olivetti (mostly) and a couple of AT&T (re-badges Olivetti's)

[@thegez73]

The "Olivetti Prodest PC1" was my first PC, it may have been a very successful machine if only Olivetti had been more courageous and had created a more modern machine ... insted they create an already obsolete machine (XT class with CGA graphics) because the case design is, as usual for Olivetti, awesome. In my opinion was a missed opportunity. At the time Olivetti owned Acorn computers, thus also his "Advanced RISC Machines" (ARM) division, so they might have imported in Italy the Archimedes that may have been a valid Amiga / Atari ST competitor ... and insted they decided to create this one, missed opportunity number two. P.S. Adrian, I really envy those t-shirts!

[@JohnKnutsson]

The Olivetti M24 (And commodore pc10) was my entry into the PC world

[@adriansdigitalbasement2]

I have an AT&T 6300 I need to get onto the main channel too. So really I have two Olivettis in the house!

[@rrpiva]

Loved to see a MSX... It was quite popular in Brazil. Try playing King's Valley. Love that game. Regards from your fan in Curitiba, 🇧🇷! 😊

[@douro20]

The Yamaha V6355D video controller can control either an LCD or a CRT.

[@cencio_1976]

Quite incredible to think Olivetti owned and controlled ARM until the mid 90s, and then they let it go.

[@adriansdigitalbasement2]

Yeah just amazing to think where ARM is now. Certainly a huge lost opportunity!

[@OscarSommerbo]

@@adriansdigitalbasement2 Or, it was that release from Olivetti that made rapid improvements possible. While I don't like to talk smack about companies, Olivetti seemed to not understand the computer market from the 80s forward. Just how Commodore stalled in the early 90s. Company culture does play a huge rile in innovation and risk taking.

[@peterhanraets]

Hi Adrian, hope you will soon be able to enjoy the FS-A1F. Some notes, apparently the capacitor situation got mixed up in my communication with Shahram, one of my friends noted that the missing color is due to not all the pins on the CXA chip being soldered to the HIC1 board. For the Gotek adapter, please make sure to connect the 26 pin ribbon cable correctly, it carries also 12V and connecting it up the wrong way might fry the Gotek and/or the mainboard, with the machine powered on you can probe where the 12V is and on the adapter board it will be on the BERG connector from the 26 pin. The upgraded ROM will remove the onboard applications, you can keep the original ROM but it can interfere with Nextor (MSX-DOS). Generally 128kB RAM (after the upgrade) is enough for playing games and running applications. Most games can be played with the keyboard. Use the cursors for directions, space for main trigger and M for secondary trigger. Some games will use Z, X, C for commands (like on PC-8801/PC-9801). MSX joysticks/joypads need 2 trigger buttons to be usable in games.

[@retrozmachine1189]

Olivetti sold PCs in Australia too. I can't remember the model but one of them with a 1.44" floppy drive was able to format DD discs as HD (1.44).

[@anotheruser9876]

You must have enjoyed Max's drive in the wet in Brazil last weekend. It was great to see the Alpine drivers on the podium as well.

[@vwestlife]

According to the blueprint it looks like the Olivetti has a battery under the keyboard, so hopefully that hasn't already leaked and damaged the board.

[@cencio_1976]

No, there's no battery

[@rivimey]

He found the battery box, empty.

[@Thesecret101-te1lm]

Cool machines! Some suggestions: A: Recap rather than replace the Olivetti PSU. It looks like a typical L296 secondary switch regulator setup, like the C128 and the first Amiga 500 PSUs, and those are afaik really solid as long as the few caps are in good shape. Maybe just to be sure check that there is a crow bar circuit in the Olivetti though. You could of course replace the built in transformer with say a separate transformer from some old ink jet printer or old scanner or other thrift store style power supply if you want to power it from your 120V sockets. B: Use the 120->100V transformer before your 120->240V step up transformer in order to get approx 220V instead of 240V for any 220V European equipment. C: Like others have already suggested, install a 240V socket in your lab. You could be the first vintage computing KZbinr in North America to do this! Either use US style NEMA-6 or NEMA-14 connectors, or some European socket. The NEMA 6/14 option would probably be the best as it would be compliant with the NEC (US electrical code). Then just have a power strip or two with Schuko and perhaps UK sockets, and put the apropriate NEMA plugs on it. Edit: To make it as safe as possible for usage with european equipment, you could add an additional breaker box in series, so your panel would have standard US breakers, while an extra box with a DIN rail could have breakers that are both UL rated and comply with the characteristics for European electric installations (trip speed at various levels of over current and whatnot). Such boxes and breakers can be bought from solar companies as solar panel combiner/breaker boxes - for some reason the solar breakers for DC seems to always use DIN rail, and I doubt that they aren't approved for AC too.

[@OscarSommerbo]

Olivetti REALLY tried in Europe to compete, but they were always a year or two behind, and they were kind expensive for what you got. And Northern Europe were early adopters of Sinclair and Commodore, so Olivetti never made much of a dent in the home computer market, I do think they had some success in the word processing space until PC clones rolled in and crushed them.

[@enes_karaca]

Oh, olivetti. A lot of the dot matrix printers used in retail and accounting (invoices and stuff) were olivetti ones here up until mid 2000s.

[@SierraWhiskeyHotelRadio]

Oh man! An Olivetti and an MSX2 in the same mail call video! I love my Sony HB-F1XDJ MSX2+ machine. There aren't many MSX2 users in Portland but maybe we can change that! I made up an RGB cable for mine and highly recommend it. (Or S-Video) It makes a huge difference especially in text mode. MSX-DOS is binary compatible with CP/M so you can try running some CP/M software off of the GoTek as well! I can't wait to see the main channel video!

[@peterhanraets]

The Panasonic FS-A1F has the same 8 pin DIN connector for RGB as the Sony HB-F1XDJ. BTW the other 8 pin DIN is for a cassette interface.

[@GiammarcoZacheo]

I'm glad you loved Galatine - the only downside is that they're addictive 😁

[@RommudohDev]

At least in Germany, we had 220V until 1987. It got adjusted in steps to 230V. Since 2009 we have 230V +/- 10% at 50Hz, like most of the rest of Europe. So, all devices intended for use here have to be rated 230V, and should be able to handle up to 253V.

[@der.Schtefan]

Well, if you don't keep up with the Commodore, the Commodore is DEFINITELY going to keep up with you.

[@BollingHolt]

The MSX styling and even graphics make me think of the Sega Master System.

[@adriansdigitalbasement2]

Yeah I think this machine is from 1987, which is the same time as the Megadrive.... So yeah definitely similar vibes!

[@geoffbeier]

The lines and grass on the F1 car box floor look like pole position graphics. It's better with those in place. Don't separate it from that, even if you do open it.

[@rtechlab6254]

My brother got a really odd Olivetti at the same time I got my first PC. I had a P133 and this Olivetti was a weird hybrid, an NX586 from Nexgen in a really cool looking case. Wish I'd kept it as the MX586 turned into something rare

[@Stefan_Payne]

Over here in Germany, my house still runs on 220V measured in an outlet. Officially its 230V, but that might just be a spec change to allow the 240VAC of Great Britain and that's all there ever was.

[@spewp]

Your fondness for Formula 1 is a pleasant surprise. When Adrian's Gearhead Basement Channel? :D

[@tigheklory]

I miss my PC 6300 so much!

[@SlavicCelery]

My opinion (not that it matters), open the car box. And then push the car around your desk making engine noises. Tire squeal noises are optional, but encouraged.

[@UnbornApple]

I’d love to see Adrian get into Japanese PCs. There’s a lot of dead X68000s out there that need repairs!

[@ghosthuntergr]

i have the pc1 with the internal hard disk. Super rare

[@adriansdigitalbasement2]

So if the drive situated in the space under the lid, so it's not popped up? I wondered what that structure under there was for.

[@ghosthuntergr]

@@adriansdigitalbasement2nothing in the other configurations e.g two floppy or one floppy and hd is tottaly different

[@nigefoxx]

I've heard that pop-pop-pop you had when undoing the screws on the Panasonic. Time to get yourself some JIS screwdrivers!

[@MickOhrberg]

Got a really quick glance at the video and with that microphone pulling the neck line of the shirt down and the white t-shirt, for a second looked like a clerical collar! Rev Black, back with the Super Mini MailCall!

[@adriansdigitalbasement2]

Hahaha! No it's just it's getting colder so I'm starting to put on layers of clothes to stay warm :-)

[@RommudohDev]

37:31 the connector between printer and RGB is labelled kasetto in katakana, so it's most likely for a cassette drive

[@enricoself2256]

In my parent attic I have the predecessor to the PC1, a Thomson MO6 clone labelled Olivetti Prodest PC128. I got it as a Xmas present in place of the requested Commodore C64 and it had a similar design as the PC1 with a cassette recorder in place of the floppy disk. It had limited graphics and sounds capabilities compared to the C64 and it could only boast 128kb of RAM. I bought several games which, again, were repackaged games for the Thomson MO6 in most case not even bothering to translate the french text messages. It was very good as a Basic training computer and that is very I started programming. But for games, quite disappointing; for the next round I made sure to get an Amiga 500.

[@rager1969]

I think some Tandy 1000s come close to looking like that Olivetti.

[@twocvbloke]

The first windows PC that was actually mine was an Olivetti, a PCS P/75n (Pentium 75, 16MB RAM (later 32), 850MB HDD, 4x speed Sony CD-ROM, Creative Vibra16 sound & modem card, and played a lot of Duke Nukem 3D on it!), though that one sadly died around 22 years ago, but I have a very similar Olivetti Modulo M4-75s (virtually identical aside from the front panel), which I've had for a good 16-17 years, also have an Olivetti Lettra 22 typewriter somewhere I had intended to restore, but never got around to it, but like many past brands, it's pretty much just a shell name now for sticking on generic stuff...

[@lasskinn474]

the hole is necessary for some msx machines, it's for locking the cart in while powered on or for cutting the power if you remove it while powered up

[@peterhanraets]

Yeah the hole is indeed part of the MSX specification. but not many computers had an actual pin locking the cartridge. There are 2 pins on the cartridge slot that need to be shorted and together with a switch in the cartridge slot can turn off the machine during insertion or removal of the cartridge. This is used on more machines but the Panasonic FS-A1F has neither ;)

[@ManuelBilderbeek]

You'll want the RGB output for the best quality. I wonder if the lack of green is only on the composite output, or also on RGB. Enjoy your MSX2!

[@Wanton110]

I have a Prodest PC1, I only really wanted it for the case, but never got around to taking it a part, I'll probably try and upgrade it some how

[@rager1969]

Adrian, can you share a list of the caps you are ordering? It would be helpful to know what a good mix of caps to have on hand. Thanks.

[@charlesjmouse]

Ah, Olivetti. Back in the day most European countries had their state-sanctioned national computer company. None were capable of standing on their own two feet and so all went under eventually. Olivetti were better than most courtesy of their boxes having a little Italian design flare if nothing else to recommend them, and the company bailed out Acorn through it's 'Electron debacle' without which we wouldn't have RiscOS or ARM today.

[@coryengel]

Your flexible ifixit extender fits into smaller holes than the driver handle.

[@pauledwards2817]

Personal computer world magazine uk reviewed this. May have info of use. I do recall being underwhelmed by the spec for the price. Schools may have liked it of course.

[@acidhelm]

F1 switched to that red logo in 2018, so that car isn't _that_ old.

[@adriansdigitalbasement2]

Ah good call! I didn't notice that

[@TalesofWeirdStuff]

Is the mouse for that the same as the mouse for the M24 / AT&T PC6300?

[@michaelturner2806]

12:00 If you're going to open it up for display purposes, imo that's fine, but I would recommend getting a display stand/cover for it first if you really want to display it rather than it just being something sitting on a shelf. signed, someone who has too much junk just sitting on shelves

[@rtstaley]

カセット = Cassette

[@ipaschke]

The CF-expansion card that came with the Olivetti just seems to be a normal XT-CF-Lite 4.1 card with some kind of cover...

[@poofygoof]

with the amount of 240V equipment you have, you could put in a 240V receptacle at your bench.

[@TheRealColBosch]

Drink every time Adrian says "AF1" instead of "A1F." Clearly the race car messed him up. ;)

[@tigheklory]

I know there's a lot of Coleco Adam users watching this channel and I'm sure one of you guys have a spare machine. I only have one, someone send your extra Adam to Adrian!

[@adriansdigitalbasement2]

Heh yeah it's definitely been highly requested! I just require to get that PSU adapter because I don't have space for giant silly printers LOL!!!!

[@tigheklory]

@adriansdigitalbasement2 there's plenty of space inside to install an internal PSU and lots of people do that. You need a FujiNet for it too. I have a special version of Deoxit I want to send you but my emails must go into purgatory, I don't know your PO box address.

[@frankowalker4662]

The Olivetti looks cool. I bet it's rubbish, but it LOOKS cool. Ha ha.

[@RobertdeRooy]

Why you may want to expand the memory of the MSX2 to 128KB... The MSX2 standard required at least 64KB. And this is what most Japanese MSX2 computers came with, including yours. In Europe instead 128KB became the norm. As such, Japanese developed MSX2 software will normally work fine with just 64KB, but some European software titles may expect 128KB.

[@horusfalcon]

Kojro may have some useful info on the PC1... he has a number of Olivetti models in his collection.

[@catriona_drummond]

I have a working ones one of those Olivettis, the 2 drive version - the routing of that floppy cable is just weird. If you need a closeup pics of the PSU and power switch arrangements, or any measurements taken let me know. Also the Graphics are CGA compatible but but not 100% it seems. I use it with one of those fabulous Mitsubishi EUM 1491 monitors and its looks great (for CGA).

[@systemchris]

The UK now runs at 230v since 2003 in order to harmonise and link up grids across europe

[@rivimey]

In theory it does, in fact the voltage didn't change. The specs were updated to say IIRC 230V nominal -10V or +30V (or something like that), the numbers were tuned so that the new spec was a superset of both the earlier 240V UK and 230V EU standards. My very much UK supply is actually more like 245V!!

[@tommythetoe]

I changed a step down transformer to step up as well. But I'm lazy just cut off the male plug and put a female plug in and turned a cheap extension cord into a male to male cord. Then hot glued 1 end into the outlet on the transformer, Works fine.

[@timballam3675]

I cut my teeth in IT fixing Olivetti PCs that came out of an insurance company for resale to the public.....

[@stephanemignot100]

I used a MSX Emulator on my 2004 eMac

[@infi84]

ah, you got blessed with microsofts new garbage photo viewer too, another user has shown me "qview" recently as a quick fast image viewer and I haven't looked back since.

[@Retromicky82]

Weird I was actually looking at one of those same msx 2 computers about 20 minutes ago thinking about buying one and what happens you upload a vid 😅

[@Bastler95m]

well if you see プリンタ it's definitely read the same as printer and also means it. also the port labelled カセット is for a cassette (tape) drive. being able to read some hiragana and katakana is a nice thing I must say.

[@adriansdigitalbasement2]

Yeah I learned that printer port is a mini parallel thing that was standard on all the MSX machines and I guess other Japanese machines. And yes, cassette was the other DIN.

[@retrozmachine1189]

When Adrian receives a mail call parcel with perishable on it, does he think food or does he think leaky battery...