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My dad bought one of these in 1985: http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/8bit_Upgrades/Opus_Challenger3.html http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/8b
by to3m 9y ago
My dad bought one of these in 1985: http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/8bit_Upgrades/Opus_Challenger3.html http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/8bit_Upgrades/Opu... - the 256K one. Unsure of price but I think it was around £200?
I used it quite a lot when I got a bit older - the RAM disc's speed made it very useful. Good to play disc Elite (once unprotected...) from, and I remember it being much quicker to assemble stuff with ADE.
(I still have it, but the Opus EPROM erased itself long ago, so the RAM disc part has languished unused for a very long time. The 32 year old disc drive still works fine with my Master 128 though...)
- jacquesm 9y agoWow, I've seen a lot of BBC hardware (I had good contact with both Dutch importers of BBC related stuff) and I've never seen one of those. You probably could re-program that EPROM if you wanted, or replace it with a ROM so you won't have that problem ever again. But this is probably not the most practical system for today :)
- to3m 9y agoThe comment about practicality is well made. The Challenger was a good device for the time, but for the modern day I prefer my current setup: Master 128 with 16MHz copro, plus home-made mashup of http://zeridajh.org/software/65link/index.htm http://zeridajh.org/software/65link/index.htm and Minimus AVR, letting me can use my Macbook Pro as a file server ;)
- jacquesm 9y agoVery nice :) Unfortunately I lost almost everything I ever wrote for 8 bit platforms and a lot of my early PC and Atari stuff. It's a real pity, but then again, it also forced me to cut ties with the past and move on which in a way was a blessing. But it would have been nice to open up a lifetime of code at some point.