7 Jan
2002
7 Jan
'02
4:22 p.m.
Does anybody know anything about this thing? The local thrift shop
has one that they claim works (but they don't know how to work it), with
everything but an AC power supply. It comes with a very broken box, or
pieces of it, instruction manual and a Basic tutorial. The sticker on
the back says 1985. The console itself is cosmetically perfect.
I didn't get it yet, because there is a compartment at the back that
appears to take some kind of cartridge. Is that part necessary for use?
It also has a narrow male card-edge connector at the back, maybe 18 or
20 pins. What's that?
Not surprisingly, there's not a lot of information about it on the
web. Mostly Google turns up old posts to classiccmp mailing list....
Doc
7 Jan
7 Jan
4:47 p.m.
Does anybody know anything about this thing? The
local thrift shop
has one that they claim works (but they don't know how to work it), with
everything but an AC power supply. It comes with a very broken box, or
pieces of it, instruction manual and a Basic tutorial. The sticker on
the back says 1985. The console itself is cosmetically perfect.
Is this a little LCD computer? If so, basically, that's all there is to it.
I liken it to being an oversized Tandy Pocket Computer in approximate
power and programmability.
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8 Jan
8 Jan
6:40 a.m.
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Yep, that's basically it. It has BASIC built in and I believe it has a
video out so you can hook it to a TV instead of having to rely on the
little one-line, 40-col. LCD display.
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Does anybody
know anything about this thing? The local thrift shop
has one that they claim works (but they don't know how to work it), with
everything but an AC power supply. It comes with a very broken box, or
pieces of it, instruction manual and a Basic tutorial. The sticker on
the back says 1985. The console itself is cosmetically perfect.
Is this a little LCD computer? If so, basically, that's all there is to it.
I liken it to being an oversized Tandy Pocket Computer in approximate
power and programmability.
4:04 p.m.
Does anybody know anything about this thing? The
local thrift shop
has one that they claim works (but they don't know how to work it), with
everything but an AC power supply. It comes with a very broken box, or
pieces of it, instruction manual and a Basic tutorial. The sticker on
the back says 1985. The console itself is cosmetically perfect.
Is this a little LCD computer? If so, basically, that's all there is to it.
I liken it to being an oversized Tandy Pocket Computer in approximate
power and programmability.
6:17 p.m.
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
The one I had had neither, something like 22-columns
and no video out. I don't
know where it went (it basically decided to go to the great inventory dump
in the sky one day, and I can't seem to find where I put the 'corpse'). It
could have been a different model.
Well, somebody more decisive than me is playing with the Laser. I
went back this morning and it had sold.
Bummer.
Doc
5:38 a.m.
Does anybody know anything about this thing? The
local thrift shop
has one that they claim works (but they don't know how to work it), with
everything but an AC power supply. It comes with a very broken box, or
pieces of it, instruction manual and a Basic tutorial. The sticker on
the back says 1985. The console itself is cosmetically perfect.
I didn't get it yet, because there is a compartment at the back that
appears to take some kind of cartridge. Is that part necessary for use?
It also has a narrow male card-edge connector at the back, maybe 18 or
20 pins. What's that?
Not surprisingly, there's not a lot of information about it on the
web. Mostly Google turns up old posts to classiccmp mailing list....
Buy it (if the price is ok)
Under the Laser Brand a lot of various architectures have been build.
Even the Name Laser 50 has been Used twice - one is a 6502 system, the
other is a Z80 machine with an build in LCD - both are quite nice.
Gruss
H.
(And if you don't like it, I'll give you my address)
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