/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1828256

Now a French Philips advertising for their low-end MSX computers (high-end MSX were often like >>1820001).
The fully equipped offer is roughly 500 FF (roughly 22.62 USD in 1985) more expensive than an Amstrad CPC 6128 (2000 FF more expensive if you want the color monitor instead of the monochrome one, roughly 222.47 USD). When you see that kind of prices, it's understandable that the MSX didn't caught the attention that much, when superior hardware was cheaper (I consider the Amstrad CPC 6128 as superior hardware because it had twice the RAM, a 80 column text mode, an integrated disk drive, and a standard floppy port on the back -- you can plug your regular 5"1/4 floppy ribbon on it and only need an external power supply for the FDD itself, it had a better graphic hardware, and it was shipped with CP/M).