sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) (11/28/83)
Does anyone have any hard information on the CoCo clone from Britain known as the Dragon-64? I have heard the following rumors, and I'd like to get them verified or debunked: 1.) It has a true UART-based RS232 port 2.) It also has a Centronics parallel printer port 3.) It has composite-video output along with RF. 4.) No disk system is available yet. 5.) It has a built-in ROM-to-RAM routine which allows a 40K user data when using BASIC. Frankly, the composite video, RS232 and parallel ports already obsolete most of the add-ons which I've needed to make the CoCo usable, if it's all true. I do fear that it will be hard to break into the US market now, and that such a superior machine will nonetheless fail. Still, if they ever get a disk system and OS-9 on it, it will be a strong competitor to the CoCo. -- /Steve Dyer decvax!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbncca
sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (11/28/83)
Relay-Version:version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site duke.UUCP Posting-Version:version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path:duke!decvax!bbncca!sdyer Message-ID:<354@bbncca.ARPA> Date:Mon, 28-Nov-83 01:29:34 EST Organization:Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Does anyone have any hard information on the CoCo clone from Britain known as the Dragon-64? I have heard the following rumors, and I'd like to get them verified or debunked: 1.) It has a true UART-based RS232 port 2.) It also has a Centronics parallel printer port 3.) It has composite-video output along with RF. 4.) No disk system is available yet. 5.) It has a built-in ROM-to-RAM routine which allows a 40K user data when using BASIC. Frankly, the composite video, RS232 and parallel ports already obsolete most of the add-ons which I've needed to make the CoCo usable, if it's all true. I do fear that it will be hard to break into the US market now, and that such a superior machine will nonetheless fail. Still, if they ever get a disk system and OS-9 on it, it will be a strong competitor to the CoCo. -- /Steve Dyer decvax!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbncca