Hello, Walter!

>Good old times... I did some Z80 assembling code myself. Even wrote my own Z80 compiler, drawing program for the MSX 2+ and various demos. Which MSX producer did you work for ? Philips, Sony, Toshiba, Sanyo ?

Finally we seem to have some roots in common! Teh company I worked for was called Telematica and we produced the Talent MSX and MSX2 computers. Yes, it was an argentine company! Our machine wasn't a clone of some other. We redesigned a lot of things, and designed and implementd things like a LAN, a video capture board (actually, a box), our own modems, and thing like that.

We bought many parts to Daewoo in Korea, but they did the motherboard under our own redesign. The machines were assembled locally at a plant in San Luis (at the north of Argentine), and we also produced locally the power supply, the case and a lot more things. It was a formidable experience until the PC become very popular.

Good old days, really! The company is defunct since around ten years (it was part of a holding that went bankrupcy and dragged it down), but many of the employees kept getting toghether at least once a year to celebrate those amazing times.


>Those were the uncomplicated times. No dlls, No different drivers for different hardware. Just turn one your MSX and you'll be up and running in about 4 seconds (MSX basic).

Well, actually we had problems with device drivers as we wrote much of them to control the hardware that we used. Of course, it was everything PROMed, not at the OS level.

Problems were of a totally different sort, but it's true that one could felt some kind of complete control of the machine.

I still have some emulators there for the PC.

Thanks for remembering me all that, Walter.