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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?

Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
From: Matthew Montchalin <mmontcha@OregonVOS.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 19:27:23 -0700
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On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, David Cantrell wrote:
|On Sat, 14 Jul 2001 01:57:33 +0100, Darren Salt
|<news@youmustbejoking.demon.cu.invalid> said:
|
|>I demand that Bob Retelle may or may not have written...
|>
|>> Using a TV will restrict the output to 40 columns. [...]
|>
|>BBC micro, mode 0. 640x256 graphics, 80x32 text, monochrome.

I wouldn't mind that kind of graphics, and that kind of text mode,
so long as the character sets are redefinable, and one of which 
implements a conventional Commodore graphics character set (which
so many people seem to have memorized).

|>Very useable on a PAL TV.
|
|But possibly not usable on NTSC, the inferior standard used in less
|enlightened areas :-)

References:
- If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: "T.J.T van Kooten" <thomas@-nospam-worldonline.nl>
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: Bob Retelle <bobr1@provide.net>
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: Darren Salt <news@youmustbejoking.demon.cu.invalid>
- Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
  - From: David Cantrell <usenet-20010705@barnyard.co.uk>

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