Northstar Horizon

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Mon Nov 1 22:43:32 1999

The same thing was "wrong" (meaning that it irritated me and offended my
sense of how things should be) as with the N*, in that they used memory
space I wanted to use. Consequently, I never seriously used, nor did I ever
promote them. It was no big deal, but at the time I thought that it was.

Dick

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Dameron <ddameron_at_earthlink.net>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Monday, November 01, 1999 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: Northstar Horizon


>At 10:52 PM 10/31/99 -0700, Richard wrote:
>>There certainly were a few vendors whose systems were as much off-center
as
>>the N*. Just take a look at Vector Graphics' systems, for example. I
once
>>owned a couple of those, with their memory-mapped video refresh memory.
>
>What was wrong with their "flashwriter", at least for that time, late
>1970's? It was very similar to the Processor Tech's "VDM", and cost a whole
>lot less than a text VDU. You could move its location in memory if desired,
>but had to have matching drivers.
>-Dave
>
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