You can’t forget about IBM’s own IBM PC “Near Compatible”. The PCJR. IBM’s attempt to enter the home computer market. I’m a big fan of the PCJR, but I could be biased because I had one when growing up. IBM dropped ISA compatibility completely with it. Each slot in the system was for a specific type of card, each with different pin counts and slot types. Yes, they provided for 3rd party expansion through the use of side-cars. But every port built into the PCJR is specific to the PCJR. On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 9:52 PM Alexander Pierson via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:

If you count the Sanyo MBC-550/555's as not-quite-PC compatibles, then I may have a video that fits that bill. Time Bandit is the only game I've ever seen mentioned for the MBC-555. It also is the only demonstration of the color modes I've witnessed. It's mighty impressive, if you ask me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN2wnCBQ1uo

-Alexander 'Z' Pierson

On Tuesday, October 24, 2017, 4:35:48 PM EDT, Jason Howe via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:

On 10/23/2017 09:55 PM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic wrote:

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If someone like us has a spouse like that (not referring to your wife here Jason, but the rest of the paragraph), then, respectfully, this is treating the symptom. The problem is a spouse that's simply incompatible at a very fundamental level. I've come across so many miserable people in that situation, and I just sit and wonder why.

-Dave

I completely agree and would never have married a woman who didn't respect my hobbies, as that would mean she didn't respect me. Seriously WTF would spend the rest of their life with that!? But, people do it all the time for whatever reason. Anyway, it's not for me to tell people how to live their lives -- I can only suggest how they can end it...erm...you know what I mean!

--Jason

-- Normal Person: Hey, it seems that you know a lot. Geek: To be honest, it's due to all the surfing I do. Normal Person: So you go surfing? Normal Person: But I don't think that has anything to do with knowing a lot... Geek: I think that's wrong on a fundamental level. Normal Person: Huh? Huh? What?