@polpo Lovely little machine! ❤️

@polpo that is a elan enterprise's favorite son!

@polpo 😍​

@polpo Sony made some pretty computers

@polpo that is a beautiful machine indeed! One of the things I like about MSX is the variety of the machines, a lot of gems there.

@polpo These MSX machines are amazing (a significant influence on my RAIN-PSP design 😁 )

https://hackaday.io/project/183330-rain-psp

@polpo 💗

@polpo I don't know this machine (I went ZX Spectrum48K -> Commodore 64), but it sure is gorgeous!
As someone who studies the subject in college, I'm amazed on what was accomplished with an 8 bit architecture at the time.

@polpo from times when the design was nice. Love it.

@polpo that is the most Sony computer ever.

@polpo That is a thing of beauty!

@polpo The Microsoft operating system!

@polpo It's really the optimism of putting both a handle and a joystick on it, as if the joystick won't come flying off the first time you bump into something while carrying it.

@polpo Thank you for sharing! I have ALWAYS been a fan of this wonderful style of design.

@polpo Aww, MSX. I’ve got had a nostalgia flashback.

@polpo Masterpiece 👍

@polpo @48kRAM that is amazing and I want it!

@polpo what a beauty! Those two slots, what kind of media goes in there?

@polpo It's lovely. Is that 2 slots for some sort of external storage? What kind of operating system does it run?

@polpo 😮

@polpo I had bought a Tandy 1000 TX just before these came out. I was big into the ShadowRun roll playing game at the time and wished I could trade it in for one of these. (Glad I didn’t, the Tandy was a better system! But this one looks so much better)

@polpo That is one heck of an aesthetic. I wish they would make all-in-one computers like this these days, like what they did with the Raspberry Pi 4, I think it was?

@polpo
This needs to be part of an upcoming Cyberdeck Contest (https://hackaday.com/tag/2022-cyberdeck-contest/)

@polpo Can it run Mastodon?

@polpo I miss those chonky power switches!

@polpo i would use that as my daily driver if it had modern guts. What a great form factor.

@polpo About 90% certain that that's Hiro Protagonist's deck.

@polpo That's a beauty! Never seen one before.

If it had a dot matrix printer, it would really be the complete package.

@polpo How have I never seen one of these? I know MSX is pretty obscure in the US, but daaang.

@polpo love a hit bit!!!!!!!!! just an incredible design

@polpo Sony has always cultivated strong design. Even when their products don't succeed, they usually look good.

@polpo i got a couple of msx2s as well. I have a boxed panasonic a1, but my hitbit as well is my favorite. I love the little joystick!

@polpo 10/10

@polpo crazy, was that an actual consumer device or a prototype?

@polpo yep, this is one of the cooler MSX1 models. I'd rather use a regular black/grey one from Sony (I actually use a HB-T7 with the sweet LED modem indicator panel) but I still have a soft spot for that shiny red paint and the little joystick you can screw into the direction keys.

@polpo I NEED.

@polpo What a beauty 😻

@polpo love this so much

@polpo
Incredibly enough, those things still sell for one to several hundreds on eBay. And they don't look half as good as your model.

@polpo Love it, just screams of a bright, better tomorrow

@polpo @krusynth This is amazing! 🙌

@polpo

Gorgeous, that vibrant red with faded greys and oranges is just perfect. Looks like it is always going reallllllllllyyy fast

@polpo
Thanks ! I saw one of those in an old 80's magazine and the built-in joystick stuck with me - I always wondered what the machine was!

Nice styling, and the red looks great!

@polpo @tsturm ok sold. I was looking which MSX I want. This is it.

@polpo. Msx never really clicked with me, although I always admired the build quality and feel of Sony's hit bit stuff.

@polpo I never used one, but they're certainly iconic. I remember being fascinated by the design and by the built in joystick. Though given that Wico's were the only joysticks I was incapable of destroying by the dozen, it's probably a good think I never got one...

@polpo that is straight up a cyber deck.

@polpo It has a handle? :blob_sweats:​

@polpo beautiful 😍

@polpo certainly one of the prettier models, yes; don't forget to include the #MSX hashtag so some more MSX lovers get their eyeballs on it. ;)

Another #HitBit that I enjoy the aesthetics of, is the Sony HB-F1XD, which also sports that lovely red, albeit as a more subtle accent.

@polpo That is gorgeous... I am just waiting to see if anyone decides to mod this to put a Raspberry Pi 4 in it as the computer instead. Find a way to make everything work with it and turn it into a more powerful portable rig.

With all the new portable displays that are coming out this could be a fun little replacement for a 'laptop'.

@polpo That's one of the prettiest computers I've ever seen. And I was in love with the Atari ST back in those days.

Amazing considering that #MSX is almost literally just ColecoVision as a computer -- not the Adam (which destroyed Coleco), the SpectraVision one.

@polpo That's a proper #cyberpunk looking netrunning deck 😄👌

@polpo 😍 why can’t more things be designed like this! Makes me nostalgic for my red Speak & Spell

@polpo That red MSX was one of my holly grails when I was still collecting retro computers. Unfortunately my wife intervened and now I am into mechanical keyboards and out of space.

@polpo holy moly!

@polpo That's pretty awesome, especially the built-in joystick. Reminds me of the one I used with a Tandy 1000 HX.

@polpo that is a hardware masterpiece.

@polpo
Phwoar!

@polpo PERFECTION.

@polpo Oh boy, what a beauty!

Why are our computers today looking so... boring

@polpo omg a MSX .. I still have mine in a box somewhere, a Philips VG8020.

@polpo

Oh wow, never seen that.

@polpo @swetland beautiful!

@polpo that's a spicy cyberdeck!

@polpo Wow, awesome. The ‘It’s a Sony’ stickers are icing on the cake.

@polpo Gorgeous: sums up everything about that thrilling period in the early '80s that culminated in my purchase (with financial assistance from my parents) my BBC Model B. But I would have been sorely tempted by that Sony on looks and ergonomics alone!

@polpo It's begging to be made into a Raspberry Pi #CyberDeck!

@polpo

I want to find one of those and put an ARM single board computer innit if it's not working.

@polpo How… do you choose between f1 and f6?

@polpo wow, and it's red! Love it :)

@polpo that's gorgeous!

@polpo i really like that handle!

@polpo very cyberpunk. Just add 'trodes

@polpo Magnificent.

@polpo It is beautiful.

@polpo Cc @mediaarchaeologylab

@polpo c'mon, that's obviously not a computer, it's a prop from Akira.

how can you have a prop from an animated movie I don't know I didn't think this through

@polpo it’s beautiful!

@polpo wow! 🤩

@polpo ooh... did NOT know about the handle! 😯
Always loved the design of this machine.

@polpo I'm jealousy 🤩

@polpo Oh yeah i love that one, such cyberdeck aesthetics, i'd almost just try to find/recreate one and but in a RP4 in it :)

@polpo Oh my! You may have shown me something to compete with my beloved Amstrad.

@polpo Mother of God, that's not a computer, that's a cyberdeck from Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy.

@polpo oh my god it is adorable I want one

@polpo

Heck yeah, gotta love a bright red Hit Bit! The HB-101 is definitely on my list of microcomputers to acquire. It's so darned beautiful!

Unfortunately, my current collection is lacking in machines from the Japanese market, so my only MSX is a relatively boring Canon V-10.

@polpo Wow, this is a little like a fever dream!

@polpo Very nice! I'd have to say that joystick looks odd on a device designed to be carried, how many people twanged it's shaft off while carrying it?

@polpo @raxxie Geez. I was a high school computer science teacher through this era, and made a big point of knowing about flashy computers and whatnot to share with my students. Despite this, now and then I see an AMAZING 😻 piece of micro-computer history that was never on my radar AT ALL. Just wow.

@polpo is that officially a HitBit? Amazing piece of design.

@polpo it instantly makes me think of this (by Ralph Willis)...

@polpo "It was hot, the night we burned Chrome. Out in the malls and plazas, moths were batting themselves to death against the neon, but in Bobby's loft the only light came from a monitor screen and the green and red LEDs on the face of the matrix simulator. I knew every chip in Bobby's simulator by heart; it looked like a workaday Ono-Sendai VII, the "Cyberspace Seven," but I'd rebuilt it so many times you'd have a hard time finding a square millimeter of factory circuitry in all that silicon"

@polpo holy moley - that's what I want any computer I buy to look like. Forget all this homogenous grey brushed aluminium...

@polpo The #MSX lines and the #SAMCoupé were two things I really wanted to play with back in my #Spectrum days.

This is a beautiful example and I'd have loved to own something like this back then.

But then the #Amiga came along and all my dreams came true.

@polpo that's pretty cool!!

@polpo @ianbetteridge this is the most amazing looking computer. I love it!