6 Sep
1998
6 Sep
'98
2:33 p.m.
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From: Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: WTB: TRS-80 stuff.
Date: Sunday, September 06, 1998 9:37 PM
Well, you'll not be able to read an Apple ][ disk on anything but an
Apple (or clone), or maybe a PC with a special disk controller board.
And even if you got the program onto a TRS-80 disk, the TRS-80 and Apple
have different CPUs (Z80 and 6502), different graphics systems, etc. A
BASIC program might be able to be translated, but if it uses PEEK/POKE,
or if it uses graphics, or has machine code routines, or anything like
that, then it would be quicker to rewrite it.
Anyway, Apple ]['s are not exactly rare, are they?
They're not rare at all. I just thought it would be neat to have a
computer that would run almost everything. I guess that's yet to be made.
I have a Franklin 2000, but it's sort of screwed up in it's own way. It
has two video outputs, that don't work simultaneously. One's 40 column,
one's 80 column. To use an 80 column program, you have to turn off the
computer, connect the 80 column to the monitor, and reboot. To use the 40
column, you need to turn it off, connect to the 40 column, and then reboot.
It also uses Integer Basic, not ProDos, like most of the Apples.
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-Jason
(roblwill(a)usaor.net)
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