I had to choose between buying not skimping on groceries V a Mini-Cooper-S
(needed a little work) V Honda 600 V TRS80. Did I make the right choice?
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Liam Proven wrote:
I'd go for a bike over a car any day. Well, when I was young, anyway. Now,
I'm getting kinda stiff and creaky... Because of all the bike crashes and
the scar tissue.
The Honda 600 was NOT a bike. Well, mostly not. After demise of the mid
1960s Honda S600/S800 ("poor-man's-Ferrari" design exercise that got out
of hand and went into production), Honda engineers took a 360CC parallel
twin, detuned it and upped it to 600cc, added a differential, and a
reverse (tacked on to the outside of the case), and put it in a car body
that resembled the Mini. AN600 was the first Hondas officially imported
into USA (1970). A later Z600 had a "sportier" body, and one was cut in
half in the down-under movie "Malcolm"
Later, I bought a used Yamaha MSX (from Mitchell Waite) for him.
I never got into MSX. They ended up very impressive by the MSX2+ era.
He was into music, and wanted MIDI, etc.
And, of course, he never mastered conversion of the Ensoniq Mirage disks.
(each track had 1024 byte sectors numbered 0 through 4, and a 512 byte
sector #5)
Then he bought a Mindset.
Mindset?
Obscure 80186 MS-DOS machine with interesting graphics innovations and no
market. Designed by es-Atari engineers.
