The MSX was so much more advanced than the TI, not knowing, at the time, that the TI was actually a 16-bit machine under the hood! After the MSX-1 I bought my first MSX2, a Philips 8220, and later on a Sanyo Wavy MSX-2+. I was really a huge fan of this machine! Over the years I kept expanding my hardware: extra memory, better storage, and eventually a Moonsound and a G9k video chip. I was also a sysop of my own 24-hour MSX bulletin board system (OmegaBBS), which meant my machine was online and dialable at pretty much any hour of the day or night. I used my MSX machines for a very long time. Until the year 2000, my last MSX was a Turbo-R, which I bought that same year. By then I had a Moonsound, a G9k and both IDE and SCSI mass storage attached to it, quite the setup for an 8-bit machine! After 2000 I lost interest in MSX for a while, mainly because of my work in IT, but I never completely lost my love for it, and I always remained a member of msx.org.