Re: substituting ROMs (Re: Illegal Clones)

[CUTjblakeney@sentex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 13:36:35 -0700, Matthew Montchalin
<mmontcha@OregonVOS.net> wrote:

>On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Jeff Blakeney wrote:
>|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?

I got it as a Christmas present from my brother sometime in the early
1990s so it didn't cost me anything.  I'm sure he picked it up second
hand.  He even gave me an extra processor card for it.

>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.

I would have to agree with you there.  A C-64 with a Spartan would
have been one heck of a set up.  It looks like the Spartan also gave
your C-64 some extra functionality as well, not just allowing you to
run Apple II software.

One of these days I'll have to set up my C-64, Spartan and 1702
monitor and take some pictures of it.  They do look good together.

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