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I was curious about why it would have been PC incompatible, so I did some searching. Didn't find any answers, but Wikipedia led me to this incredibly detailed c

by djur 4y ago

I was curious about why it would have been PC incompatible, so I did some searching. Didn't find any answers, but Wikipedia led me to this incredibly detailed contemporary review in Byte magazine: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1983-12/page/n287/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1983-12/page/n287/... I enjoyed reading it. At one point the reviewer dials in to The Source (an early competitor to CompuServe) to download a BASIC program. The ads are great, too.

13of40 4y ago
If I could have had that interrupt list and memory map (tables 1 & 2) when I was 16, that would have been a game changer. As it was, the machine was already obsolete when we thrift-stored it, so there was no way to get software or manuals besides what came with it. I still did a fair amount of BASIC and DOS-level assembly programming on it, but the hardware and BIOS was a black box.