Re: Basis 108 software find

["Norman Lightfoot" <jumptoconclusions@yahoo.com>]

Are you looking for a clone?

I have one.  Made in Montreal.

Microcom II+ clone.

Should I keep it or sell it?


"Ernest" <ernestls@attbi.NOSPAM.com> wrote in message
news:onXK8.103539$cQ3.2958@sccrnsc01...
> Last week, a fellow collector gave me a bag of what he thought was Apple
II
> software. It was mostly copies that I could see at first glance so I
didn't
> bother to go through it until this evening. After sorting it all out, I
> discovered a complete set of Basis 108 system disks, and it turns out the
> entire collection of misc. software in the bag was patched to run on a
108.
>
> I already have one complete set of original Basis system disks, and CP/M
plus
> but my set has gold tone labels. This new set of originals has white
labels,
> which makes me wonder if it's a different Revision, or something like
that. I
> have a Basis 108 that appears to have all of the "latest" Basis upgrades
> installed, and some bits and pieces of the Sacramento club homebrew add-on
> kits. However my Precision Echo (a Basis clone) looks like it has the
> original non-upgraded motherboard, with gold capped RAM chips and all.
I'll
> pull the PE out this weekend and try these disks out on it.
>
> The man who gave me the bag of disks (Chris) works at a local used
computer
> store where people dump their old systems. Since someone dropped of these
> disks, I'm wondering if maybe they dropped off the whole system as well. I
> plan to go back by in the next few days to see if they might have it in
the
> back room somewhere.
>
> Life is ironic sometimes. If I was actually looking for Basis system
disks, I
> would have never, ever found them but just when I least expect it, someone
> hands me a bag of them. I wonder... if I decided to collect something
else,
> would I suddenly start finding Apple II clones by the dozen?
>
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