At 17:07 6/10/98 -0700, Kai Kaltenbach <kaikal_at_MICROSOFT.com> wrote:
>New computers announced at the 1983 CES:
>
>Vaporware? Please respond if you KNOW any of these exist for SURE.
>
[Snip]
>- Video Technology VZ200 (Z80, 4K, MS BASIC, $99)
Not only do these exist, they were very popular in Australia in the mid-80s.
They were marketed as the Dick Smith VZ-200 (Dick Smith is *the* major
electronics retailer in Australia). Not only that, but there was also a
VZ-300 (also known as the Video Technology Laser 310). For details, please
see the following URLs:
http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~alexios/MACHINE-ROOM/Video,Technology_Laser_200.
html
http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~alexios/MACHINE-ROOM/Dick,Smith,Electronics_VZ-2
00.html
http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~alexios/MACHINE-ROOM/Dick,Smith,Electronics_VZ-3
00.html
http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~alexios/MACHINE-ROOM/Video,Technology_Laser_310.
html
>By the way, has anyone actually seen an TI 99/4 (not 4a)?
Yes, I've got one, Unfortunatly I have no power supply for it. Not only
that, but I don't know what the power supply pinout is, nor where I could get
a plug to suit the strange power supply socket (it's just like the one for
the TI-99/4a, except one of the pins is bigger, so a TI-99/4a socket won't
fit).
For details on the TI-99/4, see
http://99er.interspeed.net/994.html
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