Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

[Adrian Graham via cctalk]

> On 25 May 2020, at 17:44, Liam Proven via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> And yet, despite that, there was a profusion of machines. Z80 and 6502
> and 6809. MS BASIC and MSX. The big American makes: Atari and Tandy
> and Apple. The big European makes: Sinclair, Oric, Amstrad. The niche
> ones: Sord, Spectravideo, Mattel, VTech/Laser, Dick Smith. The little
> British companies: Dragon, Memotech, Camputers, Jupiter, Elan.


Quite a few Australians might not share your view that Dick Smith was ‘niche’, 
Europeans may, largely because they’ll have never heard of him in Europe. For 
proper niche see the RCA-1802 powered COMX-35.

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