Re: substituting ROMs (Re: Illegal Clones)

[Matthew Montchalin <mmontcha@OregonVOS.net>]

On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Jeff Blakeney wrote:
|>The Spartan was a very strange bird that is quite a collector's item
|>nowadays; I think it fetches a much higher price now than it ever did
|>when it first came out.  Unfortunately, it suffered from a high price
|>when it was first marketed, and reviewers were ordered to torpedo it,
|>regardless of how valuable it might be as a 'link' between two different
|>(yet similar) platforms.
|
|I have a Spartan and it is a stand alone Apple II+ compatible machine.

What year did you get it?  How much did it cost you?

|All you need to add to it to use it as an Apple II+ is a keyboard
|(although adding a Disk ][ controller certainly helps too :-).

To this day, I think that magazine reviewers were unnecessarily harsh
on the Spartan.  It occupied an interesting place in the history of
the Commodore and Apple platforms.