Scary that it had by that time gone through 5 majour revions of an unknown dialect of basic.
32x24 is also kind of odd when everthing else was pushing to 40 column displays.
Kind of amazing to think it came out post C64 when you compare its capabilities. Why kind of market could an inferior product capture? Someone should have seen the writing on the wall long before its commercial release.
Even the coco2 released in 83 beat it down.
Its a very odd product. Like someone coming out with a new leaded gas car now everyone is on unleaded.
Very interesting none the less. Very odd choice of cpu, 6802 clone... They could have had a 6502 for cheaper. I guess they were manufacturing them already and just used what they had in house.
Wow! thats really cool.
Its green startup screen is so CoCo3 / VIC-20.
Scary that it had by that time gone through 5 majour revions of an unknown dialect of basic.
32x24 is also kind of odd when everthing else was pushing to 40 column displays.
Kind of amazing to think it came out post C64 when you compare its capabilities. Why kind of market could an inferior product capture? Someone should have seen the writing on the wall long before its commercial release.
Even the coco2 released in 83 beat it down.
Its a very odd product. Like someone coming out with a new leaded gas car now everyone is on unleaded.
Very interesting none the less. Very odd choice of cpu, 6802 clone... They could have had a 6502 for cheaper. I guess they were manufacturing them already and just used what they had in house.
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