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Re: who and what is best in low-priced micros? [message #128067] Fri, 11 October 2013 18:11
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Originally posted by: utzoo!decvax!wivax!dyer
Article-I.D.: wivax.18232
Posted: Sun May  8 11:42:17 1983
Received: Wed May 11 04:45:33 1983
References: sdccsu3.623


You undoubtedly will receive many different responses from people
with favorite micro-computers, and to an extent, they all will be
right: it's hard to get a real dog among the mass-market small
computers.  But I think that one, the TRS-80 Color Computer satisfies
all your requirements:

    o   low cost - 16K standard BASIC	$200
		   16K extended BASIC	$300
		   32K extended BASIC	$400 (actually, this is a 64K machine)
    o   attaches to your TV and uses an ordinary cassette recorder
    o   there are several editor-assembler packages available: two,
	Radio Shack's EDTASM and Micro Works' SDS80-C reside in ROMPACs,
	and therefore use little of the precious RAM.
    o   there are several bit-mapped graphics modes available, and there
	are several books describing how to use them in BASIC and assembly
	language.
    o   you get an 8-bit micro with perhaps the nicest 64K-limited architecture
	available: the 6809.  Rather like a single-address PDP-11, it
	makes the Z80 and 6502 look primitive by comparison.
    o   a disk subsystem is available, and with that, and a 64K upgrade,
	you will be able to run "real" operating systems such as FLEX
	and OS-9 (the latter a UNIX look-alike constrained to 64K.)
    o   commercial software is relatively low-cost, compared to CP/M
	systems.	

Hope this helps, and have fun looking.

/Steve Dyer
decvax!wivax!dyer
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