Errius wrote:

You can't fit expansion cards into this form factor. The Sinclair machine at top had ISA expansion slots but any cards you plugged in projected out of the top of the machine, which was dangerous as well as ugly.

So exactly like expanding a Spectrum then. 😜

Like Spectrum, Amstrad and I guess C64.

Keep on mind that those computers were not low end, but bottom end. They're intended to be used as home computers (opposed as business computers) and even could be connected to a TV, so they figured that nobody would need/want to expand it.

BTW, PC200 was really an obsolete computer by the time it was launched... almost any other brand had moved into XT and AT computers with at least 640Kb. The only redeeming (or not) feature was that 720Kb floppy drive.

Also, I like the colour scheme of that computer. I dream of putting a Raspberry Pi into a custom keyboard case with that same colour scheme.

I assume like most Amstrad-Sinclair machines it was also very cheap. It may have been the cheapest PC-compatible computer on sale in 1988.

Sharp MZ 700/800 ?
http://www.retrocollect.com/Reviews/discoveri … arp-mz-700.html

Not sure if this was mentioned, but anyway I had a couple of these awhile back. It has connectors for VGA (9-pin), mouse and external floppy drive. Also the PSU was external, much like in A500. Very low end system, a 8088 that was still being sold in 89-90!

Yeah I mentioned it above, I'd love to buy one of these someday. What cool computers!

Also In the USSR there were also BK10-01 and BK11m computers - home computers which were built on ... PDP-11 architecture ! ))

Here's it on the right - on the bottom picture - and...

on the left is the DVK3m - PDP11 compatible "serious" computer )

sf78 wrote:

Not sure if this was mentioned, but anyway I had a couple of these awhile back. It has connectors for VGA (9-pin), mouse and external floppy drive. Also the PSU was external, much like in A500. Very low end system, a 8088 that was still being sold in 89-90!

It's a Hercules/CGA connector, not VGA. Also had a connector for an external 20MB HDD

Thanks for the clarification. I sold both of mine because it was such an effort run it with all the external gadgets to basically do the same thing a simple desktop would do. I'm pretty sure the price would've been close to one too when you add all the "optional" extras.