18 Oct
2005
18 Oct
'05
7:42 p.m.
Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Okay. According to everything I've been able to find out, the
machine was originally advertised (pre-production) as TS2000, but
when the C64 was released, Timex wanted to "one-up" Commodore and
renamed their unit TS2068 (68 being greater than 64 ;-) The TS2048
was then put into the plans as a 48K version, but was never produced.
Of course, Timex of Portugal sold a lot of TC2048s in Europe.
Cameron, have
you ever seen a US-made TS2048? To my knowledge they
never made it into production.
I haven't, no. But that's okay, because the 2068 is more interesting even
if it's less compatible :) Consider me E-mailing you soooooon. :) The component I
want most is the
Spectrum emulator, just so I can play games but still work with the expanded
features.
A Spectrum emulator is nice to have because of all the available
software (not just games ;-) A disk drive is handy, too. Several
were available, but the best was made by John Oliger (who, remarkably,
is still in business and still sells the drive i/fs). I say best
because it uses the expansion bus instead of the cartridge dock, and
it is also Spectrum-emulator comppatible. Other Oliger goodies include
a parallel printer i/f and EPROM programmer.
Glen
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