21 Mar
2000
21 Mar
'00
10:51 a.m.
--- Mark Gregory <mgregory(a)vantageresearch.com> wrote:
I don't know how they got there, but I remember
seeing a large pile of
these Spartans at Active Surplus, on Queen Street in Toronto (well-known to
any Hogtown hackers) in late '88 or '89. Given Active's inventory policy
("If you don't buy it, we'll leave it lying around") they may still be
there.
If anyone researches this, please let me know.
From: Cameron Kaiser <ckaiser(a)oa.ptloma.edu>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: Apple Network Servers
> I'm also particulary impressed with the Spartan page on your site (for
> those in the dark, this was a hardware add-on for the Commodore 64 that
> turned it into an Apple II):
I was a beta tester for the Spartan in 1985. Somewhere I've still got my
contract with them (all I could find on a casual search of my bookshelves
is a copy of the docs). I have the case for one in the basement; I forget
what happened to the mainboard. I think it died, or else I wouldn't have
stripped the supply for another project.
During my testing, I remember running Enchanter on the Apple CPU and Sorcerer
on the C-64 CPU, typing a command on one, switching to the other and typing
a command there to multi-task the games (since the disks were so slow).
Interesting concept, but about 50% the cost of a real Apple. If they ever
sold any, it would have been to some serious die-hards. Mostly back then,
Apple guys and Commodore guys didn't mix much. Kinda like Atari guys and
everybody else. :-)
-ethan
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