Re: Technical manual for Laser 3000/Dick Smith Cat available

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Roger Johnstone" <roger@roger.geek.nz.removethisbit> wrote in message 
20080714201015687+1200@News.Individual.NET">news:20080714201015687+1200@News.Individual.NET...
> Well you asked for it so here it is. Well actually I think Giorgio might 
> have been the only one to ask for it, but everyone else is welcome to it 
> as well.
> 
> This is the Technical Reference Manual for the Dick Smith Cat a.k.a. 
> Video Technologies Laser 3000, the precursor to the famous Laser 128. 
> It's 274 pages long and a 12.6 MB download. For a clone it marked a real 
> turning point. It was made in 1984 and used a couple of custom gate 
> array chips. It was only mostly II+-compatible, but had many of the 
> specs of the IIe (80-column text, 64 KB of RAM, double-hires graphics). 
> In many ways it was more advanced (2 MHz CPU, better extended memory 
> management, sound chip, extended BASIC), but most of those features were 
> dropped with the Laser 128 in favour of IIe compatibility.
> 
> http://roger.geek.nz/apple2/downloads/TheCatTechnicalReferenceManual.pdf.
> zip

Link wrap, maybe this fix. 

http://roger.geek.nz/apple2/downloads/TheCatTechnicalReferenceManual.pdf.zip 

Bill Garber from GS-Electronics
http://www.garberstreet.com