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From: elg@usl.UUCP (Eric Lee Green)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.consumers,net.micro.cbm
Subject: Re: Commodore Plus 4 Question.
Message-ID: <829@usl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Jul-86 13:22:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: usl.829
Posted: Tue Jul 22 13:22:09 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 24-Jul-86 00:41:51 EDT
References: <188@rruxo.UUCP>
Reply-To: elg@usl.UUCP (Eric Lee Green)
Organization: USL, Lafayette, LA
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Keywords: CONSUMER WARNING!!!!
Summary: PLUS 4 IS OBSOLETE INCOMPATIBLE TURKEY
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In article <188@rruxo.UUCP> dgi@rruxo.UUCP writes:
>This posting is for a friend of mine who's interested in
>buying a small computer for home use.
>
>Does anybody know anything about a supposedly new Commodore
>model called the Plus 4?  Any information about it would be
>appreciated.  Also does anyone know about a color monitor

The only "home" Commodore models in widespread use right now are the
C-64 and the C-128. Anything else is an incompatible orphan with no
software.

Once upon a time, about a year and a half ago, Commodore decided they
would replace the venerable Commodore 64. So, they invented the +4.
The +4 had a cheaper keyboard, no sound chip, limited RS-232 port, and
was completely incompatible with the Commodore 64 -- no C-64 software
will run on the +4. Commodore never managed to sell many, and lost a
bundle when they had to write down their inventory and liquidate. It
is an orphan now, so there never WILL be any software to run on the
+4. Useful only if you want to play around with BASIC, you'll never be
able to do anything useful on it.

>by BMC, model 125AUW and if so is it compatible with the
>aforementioned computer?

I haven't seen the BMC, but any composite monitor is compatible with
the C-64 or C-128. Note, however, that you get a better picture out of
the Commodore monitors (because they accept the pre-seperated chroma
and luma signals that the Commodore computers can produce, eliminating
the smudging induced by the chroma trap in ordinary monitors). Or you
can just use a monochrome monitor. I'm using a $50 NAP monitor for 80
column on my C-128 right now, in order to write this warning.




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