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From: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura)
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Subject: Re: Tano Dragon
Message-ID: <861@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Oct-85 11:50:34 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 21 11:50:34 1985
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References: <593@lasspvax.UUCP> <962@mit-vax.UUCP>
Reply-To: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura)
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Summary: Mainly it didn't get off the ground, but ...

In article <962@mit-vax.UUCP> csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) writes:
>In article <593@lasspvax.UUCP> jwp@lasspvax.UUCP (John W. Palmieri) writes:
>>Anyone out there have a Tano Dragon and successfully hooked-up
>
>I'd like to know if anyone out there had seen a Tano Dragon. I didn't think
>Dragon got off the ground in America.
>-- 
>Charles Forsythe
>CSDF@MIT-VAX
>

     Well, it did and it didn't.  Mainly it didn't.  But the result
of their failure (twice?) is that there are a lot of Dragons around
and a few still available cheap.  The 64K version is superior to the
current Radio Shack Color Computer in that it has a real hardware
RS-232 built in.  Unfortunately software from the Color Computer
generally doesn't work directly on the Dragon.  Both Flex and OS-9
can be had for the Dragon, but you have to make some choices.  In
England you can buy Dragon specific versions of both Flex and OS-9.
I don't think anybody in North America carries them.  There are
special ROMs available which will adapt the Dragon to more standard
Color Computer compatibility (I *think* that this may require some
jumpers and trace cutting although I've heard of drop in ROM
replacements that don't require hardware hacking).

                                   Cheers! -- Jim O.

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