I certainly agree (Routine Enquiries, issue 90) that the Sanyo MBC is a worthy alternative to the QL. Indeed, I bought my Sanyo in June after cancelling a QL order, and have been pleased with the decision. But I really must take up the insinuation that the Sanyo only runs bundled software.

I have up and running Friday, dBase II, Cardbox, Easywriter, Wordstar Professional with Correctstar and Starindex, Multiplan, Supercalc 3 (with excellent graph making ability dumpable to a wide variety of printers), Pascal, Fortran 77, a painting program called Graffiti, not to mention some arcade games that would put the 'populars' to shame.

Any Sanyo owners out there who would like to know how to get these programs can ring me (01-986 6752). PCN might like to contact us at the Sanyo User Group before publishing rash comments about the machine.

Keith Teare
50 Airmead House, Kengsmead Way, London E9