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Last edited by 8bitweapon (Jun 29, 2010 9:04 pm)
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I wonder if anyone would have one laying about. I mean, this is quite old and most of these small-time computer companies only made a few thousand units tops.
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The Mountains
"free $300 worth of 14 programs-- including edu-basic and level 2 basic"
shit, those programs must be worth billions by now. nice find!
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Los Angeles
Rainbowdragoneyes wrote:
"free $300 worth of 14 programs-- including edu-basic and level 2 basic"
shit, those programs must be worth billions by now. nice find!
Correction, Trillions! In fact, they stopped working on that little oil spill in the gulf to scour the globe for one. lol
Last edited by 8bitweapon (Jun 30, 2010 2:34 am)
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Minneapolis
And I bet it sounds like garbage too. 
Actually, I'd be willing to bet some people on the VC Forums or CCTalk have probably seen this, or even own it.
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New York City
It doesn't even say the name of the computer.
Does it have a name?
It's based on the 8080 yet not PC-compatible, it's very interesting. Probably has a beeper-type sound. Useless or pointless to get one for music or anything at all, but interesting architecture-wise nonetheless.
Last edited by akira^8GB (Jun 30, 2010 4:58 pm)
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Nomad's Land
akira^8GB wrote:
Probably has a beeper-type sound. Useless or pointless to get one for music or anything at all
not necessarily. looking at the center screen image, i wonder if it has a 2 channel flip flop like some of the machines made in GDR. such interfaces existed for altair too, if i recall correctly.
Last edited by irrlichtproject (Jun 30, 2010 5:05 pm)
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Los Angeles
It's called the "Interact Computer" on the order section of the ad.
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A gray world of dread
Hmm, schematics here http://www.thebattles.net/oddments/inte … tSchem.pdf
Open case http://oldcomputers.net/interact.html
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Russia, Moscow
Seems it uses SN76477 as sound synth, which is rather cool (it is 1-channel digitally controlled analog synth).
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Sweden
There's an SN7647 in the Swedish ABC80 home computer, too (from 1978). Apparently, some parts of the chip used analog control signals, so in most cheap designs it ought to have been inflexible to control (as is the case with the ABC80, apparently: http://board.kohina.net/viewtopic.php?t=393).
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New York City
I like what I have discovered in this thread. Thanks for all the info 
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Olympia, WA
WHAT A DEAL! JUMP ON IT NOW! - http://cgi.ebay.com/Interact-Home-Compu … 5634491dbd
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New York City
Fucking shit.
Also, funny choice of screen resolution for text 
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Minneapolis
Yeah, that thing doesn't belong in a musician's hands, but in a collector's collection. If you really wanted to make that kind of analog synth you could just nab the chip and interface it yourself, to an old computer even if you wanted to.