Re: Mockingboard

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Otter writes ...
> 
> On Sun, 19 Apr 1998 23:37:45 -0500,
> Rubywand   <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:
>
 .... 
> > So, for $7.50 you got a II+, Language Card, ..., _and_ a
> > Mockingboard. (While you were at it, you should have said something
> > about the absence of a Disk ][ drive.)
> >
> 
> Oh.  She did come with the Disk ][, Monochrome monitor, and System
> Saver.

     of course


> I admit, she's not a spectacular system by any sense of the
> word, but she does work fine, unlike those tempermental IIc systems I
> mentioned in a previous post.  The ][+ holds alot of nostalgia value
> to me ( at least $7.50 worth :3 ).  That was my first major upgrade
> from the old TI-99/4a back in the 80s.
>
 ....

    The TI was the last computer we looked at before deciding on a II+.
It came with a good microprocessor-- maybe the best of any small
computer. 

    One thing: On your new II+, games will be more fun if you go ahead
and swap in the Amdek Color-1 monitor you forgot to mention getting for
$2.50.


Rubywand