Description

The Sanyo MPC-100 is the adaptation for the British market of the MPC-6. The keyboard is 'international' with a £ key. There is no lightpen interface. The integrated light-pen holder is typically covered by a plastic cover plate with 64K written on it.

The machine has only one cartridge slot, but there's an expansion bus: it can be used as second cartridge slot with an adapter, but was also initially conceived for the MEB-01 slot expander, connected to the MPC-X, a Graphic Expander Unit which adds MSX2 palette, high-resolution, superimposing, still function and zooming and uses lightpen. Note however that Sanyo has never released the MPC-X in Europe.

This computer was sold with software on tape:

a compilation with two games
Typing Tutor, including a demo and a keyboard trainer

Due to the Japanese manufacturers having missed the critical British 1984 Christmas season sales, and finding themselves in a saturated market in early 1985 with a surplus of machines, they were offered for sale in other European countries from Spring 1985, such as the Netherlands.

Brand	Sanyo
Type	MPC-100
Year	1985
Region	United Kingdom
Original price	UK: £299 NL: ƒ995 (imported by Trend Hobby Computers)
RAM	64kB in slot 3
VRAM	16kB
Media	MSX cartridges
Video	Texas Instruments TMS9929ANL
Audio	PSG (AY-3-8910)
Chipset	none (separate IC's)
Extras	reset button, 'hidden' hole for lightpen, cassettes with Vicious Viper + Exploding Atoms and Typing Tutor
Emulation	ROMs dumped and emulated. The rear expansion port is treated like a regular MSX cartridge slot.