Nectarine
Infamous OneLiner
mirrorbird
(22:01:40)
MSX was (i think) aiming at standardisation, which was a noble goal. at the time maybe that just meant "having a slightly less shit BASIC" or, god help us, CP/M
mirrorbird
(22:01:08)
oh VodkaBot was an MSX fan, he talked about it a lot.
silencer
(22:01:05)
In Argentina and Brasil the MSX was super popular, more than C64
mirrorbird
(22:00:56)
curious about asia -- especially, clearly japan can't have been using ASCII in those times -- i would like to see an asian retro computer museum i guess (but not boring American Zelda fanboys)
franz_opa
(22:00:31)
at least in europe & US, but globally MSX was doing pretty well, i guess
mirrorbird
(21:59:49)
C64 seems to have been the 8-bit winner in most countries.
juN3bula
(21:59:44)
yes it depends where you been
mirrorbird
(21:59:30)
and Rapture, who is older than me, didn't know that Amstrad=Schneider until we discussed the other day
mirrorbird
(21:59:00)
france was mostly 
mirrorbird
(21:58:51)
almost nobody in france had a speccy, i knew (in the 90s) one guy there who did, and published the only french-language speccy newsletter. a very lonely man, he soon ran away to the PC
