2026-11-07 14:33 UTC
@ajsadauskas@mastodon.social @retrogaming I have now watched the video.
In short, is accurate - essentially nothing that I would say was wrong or misleading.
That's not to say I agree with absolutely everything said.
A reason the original kits were so affordable was that the light pen feature of the video chip was used to handle the keyboard - a real neat hack.
The internal nickname for the computer in a book was "chook in a book" because Owen had apparently pointed to a corn flakes packet for the size.
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@geraldew@fosstodon.org 2026-11-07 14:41
@ajsadauskas@mastodon.social @retrogaming a comment I heard made during the development period for the Gamma was that Owen felt that was all about getting the hardware to work and the "software would be easy". Note that I only have that as a passed along attribution. While I did meet Owen at least once (i.e. in Perth) that was much earlier. A lot of the screens in the video are the rounded types that could only do the lower resolution mode of 64x16 characters. For CP/M and 80x24 we sold the better monitors.