30 Mar
1997
30 Mar
'97
7:16 a.m.
On 30-Mar-97, classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu wrote:
Mattel
Aquarius, Osbourne Executive, Sinclair ZX-81, TI-99/4A,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You got one too? Have you ever been able to do much
with it?
(I picked up one for free at a flea market a few years back. Only about
4K, but I was able to write some simple Basic programs, and even save them
on tape, with it. . .)
I've actually got two...One under the Mattel name, the other under the
Radofin name. Same machine though, as Radofin was the actual manufacturer of
it I believe. It's a pretty simple machine, but interesting. I've played
with the Basic somewhat, but haven't tried to do much. What all do you have
for the Aquarius?
Jeff jeffh(a)eleventh.com
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Amiga 1000, Atari 800, Atari 800XL, Atari Mega-ST/2, Commodore
C-128 & C128D, Commodore Plus/4, Commodore VIC-20, Kaypro 2X,
Mattel Aquarius, Osbourne Executive, Sinclair ZX-81, TI-99/4A,
Timex-Sinclair 1000, TRS-80 Color Computer-3, and a TRS-80 Model 4.
Plus Atari SuperPong and Atari 2600VCS game consoles.
31 Mar
31 Mar
4:33 a.m.
On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, hellige wrote:
On 30-Mar-97, classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu wrote:
Just the machine itself, unfortunately (Remember, the Aquarius was
discontinued just about the same time it hit the stores . . .) There were
promises of memory expansion, disk drives, etc., but I never saw any for
sale . . .
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Mattel
Aquarius, Osbourne Executive, Sinclair ZX-81, TI-99/4A,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ You got one too? Have you ever been able to do
much with it?
(I picked up one for free at a flea market a few years back. Only about
4K, but I was able to write some simple Basic programs, and even save them
on tape, with it. . .)
I've actually got two...One under the Mattel name, the other under the
Radofin name. Same machine though, as Radofin was the actual manufacturer of
it I believe. It's a pretty simple machine, but interesting. I've played
with the Basic somewhat, but haven't tried to do much. What all do you have
for the Aquarius? 
1:43 p.m.
On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, hellige wrote:
On 30-Mar-97, classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu wrote:
I've actually got two...One under the Mattel name, the other under the
Radofin name. Same machine though, as Radofin was the actual manufacturer of
it I believe. It's a pretty simple machine, but interesting. I've played
with the Basic somewhat, but haven't tried to do much. What all do you have
for the Aquarius?
This was my very first computer. I still miss it to this day. I harbor
few regrets in my life but one of them is selling this system with my
atari 2600 to buy my first apple. The 2600 I've since replaced (ten
fold) and I'm sure someday I'll run into another aquarius and will have
it too, but I can never replace the programming I did on it. I had a
comic book inventory database program and I wrote seevral simple arcade
games. My setup was the aquarius with an expansion box that plugged into
the expansion slot that allowed two carthridges to be plugged in
simultaneously. This allowed a 4K memory expansion card to be plugged in
along with other game carthridges which required the increased memory. I
had a 4K mem carthridge, a couple games, keypad controllers, a thermal
printer, and two tape drives. What a fun little system. Some day I will
recoup all this gear. I just hope the kid I sold it too got as much use
out of it as I did.
Sam
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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