15 Nov
2007
15 Nov
'07
7:37 a.m.
On Thursday 15 November 2007 01:43, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Yup. Memory escapes me, but I think Commodore even managed to screw that up
somehow with some lines missing or something (Jim Brain might know, I can't
find my Plus/4 notes a/t/m). Still, I used a Plus/4 as a terminal for
awhile until I got a SwiftLink. That Plus/4 even did the apartment budget
back then. Not a bad computer, and the graphics were nice, just strange and
incompatible.
I have some number of those in storage, but don't recall what the problems
were with them. I might even have one that works, though I'm not at all
sure about that. They were nice compact little cases, for sure, much more
nicely made than the c64 was. But when those started hitting the shop we
were starting to slide out of the c= business, and I don't think I ever did
see a c16 come in there.
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
On the other hand, there was the 6551 ACIA emulation
in software for
the user port, which was buggy to boot. People may make fun of the
Plus/4 but at least it had a real ACIA.
They did? (Looking in handy box of manuals, but plus 4 isn't in
there...)