Tony Duell's maxed out 5160 and PDP

On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, William Donzelli wrote: I honestly don't know what they intended. They made provivion for expansion, such as building in support for [optional] four floppies, [optional] serial, [optional] parallel, provision for both video systems to co-exist, etc. They were obviously well aware of the propensity for expansion of TRS80 and Apple][. Their internal expansion options look like they were modeled after Apple, but I'm sure that absolutely everything was completely original. And having only 5 expansion slots was to demonstrate that they were big enough that they didn't have to learn from anybody else's mistakes. But, they included support for cassette write-only storage, RF modulator, and some early commercials were of a toddler playing with it on the living room rug (which the Lisa also did). They explicitly made provision for multiple serial and parallel ports! They did NOT make provision for multiple FDC, although they also didn't take steps to block it. You are, however, absolutely right that I KNOW that I have never been their target market. -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com