On 21/01/2014 19:05, Brian Gaff wrote:
Ah yes, I had some old magazines page 6 was it?
It was called that as it used ram in pages and you could hide stuff in page
6. It was quite handy if you wanted to expand it of course.

They were actually ahead of their time in many ways, squeezing performance
from an old processor running at under 3mhz I think.

Its main gain was from its Jay Miner designed chipset (later he did the
first Amiga). It gave it graphics capabilities well beyond many machines
of the era.


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Cheers,

John.

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