Can anyone identify this item ? (BASF HD?)

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Tue Feb 24 22:53:12 1998

On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:

Aahh! Thanks for clearing that up.
                                                 - don

> Don Maslin wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to remember - was not the LNW a COCO clone?
>
> Not at all. Long before the PC was cloned, even before the Franklin
> Ace, there were clones of the TRS-80 Model One. LNW started out by
> making a substitute for the Radio Shack Expansion Interface, then
> they followed it up with a substitute for the CPU. These units were
> available as kits, unlike the Tandy products. As I recall, NEWDOS
> was originally created for the LNW, as LDOS was first for the Lobo
> Max-80. The PMC-80 (AKA Video Genie among other things) ran fine if
> you bought either of those or a copy of TRSDOS. The early PMC-80
> was cute in that you could boot from either BASIC or Electric Pencil
> in ROM.
>
> The Color Computer clone was the Dragon, best known in the UK. It
> has the advantage over the original of having a parallel port --
> necessary for attaching a Windows machine as a hard disk interface
> under OS-9. I've decided I want a Dragon to add to my three
> generations of Color Computers ever since I discovered that last.
> --
> Ward Griffiths
> Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
> before they're allowed to be free?
> WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
> they'll never be free.
>

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