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“At the sight, it is only distinguished by the screen printing of the case, where the «64» is replaced by a «72»” I recall reading somewhere that, to give an a
by Stierlitz 6y ago
“At the sight, it is only distinguished by the screen printing of the case, where the «64» is replaced by a «72»”
I recall reading somewhere that, to give an artificial boost to the home grown market. The French introduce a law to ban the import of personal computers with less then 72kb of ram. The British got round this law by adding a small pcb to the main board, that did nothing at all. Unless it was the Spanish, funny what you mis-remember.
- jacobush 6y agoMakes me wonder about the Spectravideo (Z80 based) machines. Some had 16 kbyte RAM. All Spectravideo had also 16 video RAM. But the version with 64 kbyte RAM was prominently marketed as having 80 kbyte RAM. (RAM + VRAM = 80 kbyte) I guess that computer model could also have been imported without the high tariff. (The Spectravideo 328, which formed the basis for the almost identical MSX standard.)
- hakfoo 6y agoI think that's sometimes just specs preening. The US answer to the Spectrum was called the Timex/Sinclair 2068 and advertised as a 72k machine (48k RAM/32k ROM)