My Computers
I own some computers and peripherals, Commodores as well as non-Commodores. Once owning something, I also want to have the schematics and other related documentation of it. And I don't mind sharing all this information with you.
This little baby is the 'brainchild' of Elektuur, a Dutch electronics magazine, also known as Elektor in some other countries. It has an hexadecimal keyboard + some extra keys, an hexadecimal display and it uses the 6502. "Just like the KIM" you probably think. I'm more then convinced that the developers of the Junior used the KIM as base; too much of the hardware and software looks the same. Any comments on this statement are welcome.
You can say this computer is the Z80-Version of the Junior. I started with building two myself. The first one started its life as an ASTER, a Dutch CP/M computer, but was given to someone collecting ASTER. The second one was based on the Z80 card developed by Elektuur (see Junior).
But some time ago I bought a real one.
The Clipper was German product. It was a C64 with a plasma display, a build in 3" floppy drive and thermal printer inside an office suitcase. It had a different keyboard layout, expanded OS and many more features thanks to a build-in expansion board.
This device enables me to connect an IEEE-device with a IEC-Commodore like the C64 or C128.
The biggest advantage of this real little printer is that it prints on 40 characters wide paper tape. Very neat if you need a handy listing of a BASIC program of the C64 or other 40-char Commodores. Is only equipped with an
IEC-interface.