9 Mar
2008
9 Mar
'08
5:37 a.m.
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 03:39:57PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
There was one other company, though, and I still
can't recall the name,
that tried unsuccessfully to market some system that would let you plug in
different CPU boards to run different software. I'm vaguely thinking of toy
company names, but somehow that doesn't quite seem right. Time frame
would've been a little later than a bunch of this other stuff, maybe early
1980s or so?
Ohio Scientific had the Challenger III with three CPUs - 6502, Z80, and
6800, IIRC. A family friend had one. It was lots of fun to go over and
visit when he had that running.
The factory was only a couple hours from my house, but besides that C3,
I only knew of a couple of folks who bought their "Superboard". They always
looked like neat machines, but not as popular as the big three (Commodore,
Tandy, and Apple).
-ethan
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