Mattell Aquarius (was: Re: VIC-20 Programmer's Aid

From: Charles P. Hobbs <transit_at_primenet.com>
Date: Mon Mar 31 09:33:00 1997

On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, hellige wrote:

> On 30-Mar-97, classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu wrote:
>
> >> Mattel Aquarius, Osbourne Executive, Sinclair ZX-81, TI-99/4A,
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> >You got one too? Have you ever been able to do much with it?
> >(I picked up one for free at a flea market a few years back. Only about
> >4K, but I was able to write some simple Basic programs, and even save them
> >on tape, with it. . .)
>
> I've actually got two...One under the Mattel name, the other under the
> Radofin name. Same machine though, as Radofin was the actual manufacturer of
> it I believe. It's a pretty simple machine, but interesting. I've played
> with the Basic somewhat, but haven't tried to do much. What all do you have
> for the Aquarius?

Just the machine itself, unfortunately (Remember, the Aquarius was
discontinued just about the same time it hit the stores . . .) There were
promises of memory expansion, disk drives, etc., but I never saw any for
sale . . .

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