7 May
1997
7 May
'97
4:01 a.m.
In message <Pine.BSI.3.95.970507075145.7396B-100000(a)usr05.primenet.com>you writ
e:
On Wed, 7 May 1997, Kevan Heydon wrote:
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.
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.
Memotech! I remember reading about this computer back in 1984, and was
impressed. (Remember the "Noddy" operating system?) 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