In message <Pine.BSI.3.95.970507075145.7396B-100000_at_usr05.primenet.com>you writ
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> On Wed, 7 May 1997, Kevan Heydon wrote:
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> > Actually the computer used in Weird Science to create Lisa was a
> > Memotech MTX512 plus the FDX unit. I remember this because I had one.
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> Memotech! I remember reading about this computer back in 1984, and was
> impressed. (Remember the "Noddy" operating system?)
I was too. At the time we had a Video Genie but I wanted a color
machine that was Z80 based. I wanted a real keyboard so that cut out
the Spectrum so it was a toss up between the Lynx and the Memotech.
Thankfully the Memotech won. I still have this machine, along with another
my younger brother bought, and an RS128 that I picked up last year.
The Noddy system was designed to allow you to create simple menu based
systems. I can't remember if it allowed you to do anything of any real
use as I never used it at the time. I either used BASIC plus in the
inbuilt assembler/debugger or Pascal on the Highsoft Pascal ROM board I
had.
> Did any of these make it to the US?
One must have to make the Movie. I really don't know why they choose to
use this machine when there were so many US machines. I guess it could
be because the graphics you see on the screen in the movie are far
superior to the capabilities of the machine, and if they had used a
popular US machine the audience would have seen right through it.
Kevan
Received on Wed May 07 1997 - 11:01:45 BST