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Sanyo MBC 4000 - MBC 4050	Computers	Professional Computer	Japan	1982	Intel 8086	name image company company_name specs comments oc_id source MBC 4000 - MBC 4050 /media/museum/photos/sanyo_mbc4050_system_s1.jpg /companies/sanyo Sanyo label value NAME MBC 4000 - MBC 4050 label value MANUFACTURER Sanyo label value TYPE Professional Computer label value ORIGIN Japan label value YEAR 1982 label value END OF PRODUCTION Unknown label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE None label value KEYBOARD Typewriter type, 100 keys with numeric keypad, 15 function keys and arrow keys label value CPU Intel 8086 label value SPEED Unknown label value RAM 128 KB up to 384 KB label value ROM 16 KB label value TEXT MODES 80 chars. x 25 lines label value GRAPHIC MODES None label value COLORS Monochrome, green phosphore label value SOUND Beeper label value SIZE / WEIGHT Unknown label value I/O PORTS Serial RS232, Parallel label value BUILT IN MEDIA 1 (MBC-4000) or 2 (MBC-4050) 5.25'' 640 KB FDD label value OS CP/M 86, MS-DOS 2.11 label value POWER SUPPLY Built-in PSU label value PRICE From 5,500 author date text Helen (United Kingdom) Saturday 8th December 2012 I remember the 4050 well. Top of Sanyo''s range of computers at the time. 640K RAM if I remember rightly$ sold at the time for around £2500- 3000 in UK I think$ Not many were sold though. May well have been supplied with Wordstar, Calcstar $ Datastar applications free of charge. It was first "real" computer I had access to (one at the office one at home). Well as Ad Manager for Sanyo at the time I had to know how to use the darned things in order to write the leaflets! author date text Harry (uk) Saturday 14th March 2009 I recently aquired a complete mbc 4050, stripped it, cleaned and serviced the drives, reseated all ic''s ,and now this has to be the best,and quickest cp/m machine in my collection, and so quiet in use, the drives will read the disks almost instanty,and quietly, superb piece of engineering!\ but why did they make the keyboard so big?? author date text Dave (UK) Tuesday 28th March 2006 I own one of these. When time allows later this year I'll post some info. 1106 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230417020139/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1106 2023-04-17

The Sanyo MBC-4000 series succeeded to the MBC-1150. It was the same all-in-one system including one (MBC-4000) or two (MBC-4050) 5.25" floppy drives, a monochrome display and a very complete keyboard.

It featured a true 16-bit Intel 8086 CPU and shipped with the CP/M-86 operating system as well as a Basic interpreter and a spreadsheet called Goal.
MS-DOS 2.11 was also available on this machine.

Thanks to John Papadopoulos's site for the picture.

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