+davidcalgary29 Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 I managed to snag a few copies of Australian Personal Computer from 1980-1, and it was full of oddities, including this machine. It certainly seemed to be quite interesting, and had an Australian presence (from ads), but theres essentially zilch on this out there. Has anyone used one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 Yes, they are delightfully quirky machines. Quite possibly the crispest color display at the time due to it being direct driven digital RGB to a modified TV, with a Wangco disk drive where the tuner once was. The disk controller in and of itself was also a bizarro affair, built from a repurposed USART being abused in its test mode to output a high speed coding clock. -Thom 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesD Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 and one of the only 8080 personal computers out there if I remember right 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 BurritoBeans has logged nearly 9 hours of gameplay on the Compucolor II, which I presume was real hardware, not emulated. He has logged another 4.5+ hours on the Compucolor 8001 as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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