Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!xenitec!zswamp!root
From: root@zswamp.uucp (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: CBM 610/710
Message-ID: <265.28696474@zswamp.uucp>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 91 10:18:33 EDT
Organization: Izot's Swamp BBS (FidoNet), Kitchener, Ontario

In a letter to All, #Daniel Ruegemer (druegeme@hpwad.WAD.HP.COM ) wrote:

 >in a note I've been writing about CBM 610/710, and I got 
 >many responses asking what kind of machine this is.

 >It's the last computer of what I call the 'real cbms', that 
 >means the family of PET, 3032, 4032, 8XXX. It has an extended 
 >Commodore Basic 4.0 (like the 8000).
 >The extended Commands refer in general to the extended 
 >Memory. Normally, it has 128K RAM. This memory is adressed 
 >by 'bank-switching'. 
 >One 64K-Bank is reserved for variables, the second for 
 >program-code.
 >The machine works with an extended 6502 (6509 or so) and 
 >includes the 
 >SID 6581 (yeah, not the 6522, I messed up!). It also has got 
 >a RS232,
 >this is really sensational for a computer of this family.
 >It was built in the late 80's, and I guess it was the 
 >biggest flop in the history of Commodore.

   Hmm, that sounds like what Commodore sold in North America as the "B128".
 

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