29 Nov
2005
29 Nov
'05
8:53 a.m.
woodelf wrote:
Jules Richardson wrote:
It certainly seemed feature-rich, well designed, and way ahead of much of the
competition.
Problem is it would have suffered the same way as the BBC micro: too expensive
on the domestic market for most mere mortals, and unlikely to be able to
compete in non-UK markets (particularly the US) due to lack of marketing
budget and consumers already having long-established ties with existing
manufacturers (e.g. Apple, Commodore etc.)
Computing history seems littered with technically superior unsuccessful
machines :)
(not that the BBC wasn't a huge success in the UK, primarily through
widespread education use, but globally it didn't do as well)
cheers
Jules
Whoo! I remember Rich being all excited and bringing it to the museum
last year, so it's great to hear that it's now running. (Reminds me
that I think he was after another couple of 3.5" FH floppy drives for
it...)
cheers
Great now I want a Dragon II for the Yule Tide!
So are there any odd chips on the board? It looks
like all the chips are still easy to come by.
Ben alias Woodelf.
PS It looks like the product was a finaly a nice UK computer
that could go places.