19 Jan
2004
19 Jan
'04
7:44 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Vintage Computer
Festival
Sent: 19 January 2004 18:13
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Aquarius II on eBay didn't sell at over $400
For what it was it wasn't a bad little machine. Just imagine a computer
marketed by a toy company and that's what this was. The keyboard was a
"chiclet" variety, just barely useable, and the BASIC language was
adequate, barely, especially after taking more than 2K for itself and
leaving you with less than 2K to actually write programs in.
Imagine how much memory you'd have had left if they'd left the FOR...NEXT
loop in the BASIC interpreter! The aquarius was perhaps unfairly labelled as
'the computer for the 70s' :)
cheers
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Adrian/Witchy
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - possibly the UK's biggest online computer museum
www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk - ex-monthly gothic shenanigans :o(