Poly 1 Computer
Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2018 10:02 pm
This is totally unrelated to the Oric, but I thought that a few people might be interested in this.
I discovered this only a couple of weeks ago. I am originally from New Zealand. I was born there, grew up there, went to school there, started working there. Up until about 10 years ago I was still living there.
So being a big retro computer fan, how on earth have I never heard of this 8-bit 1980s retro computer developed in New Zealand for New Zealand schools?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly-1
https://www.classic-computers.org.nz/bl ... sition.htm
http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/homepages/and ... y/Poly.htm
For 1981, this seemed like quite an impressive machine. It had 64K RAM, and supported accessing another 64K RAM above that. It had five separate "screens", two text, two graphics, and a background screen that were super imposed on top of each other. - Such a shame that the New Zealand government pulled out of the deal to purchase these to supply to New Zealand schools.
This is a real collectors item.
I discovered this only a couple of weeks ago. I am originally from New Zealand. I was born there, grew up there, went to school there, started working there. Up until about 10 years ago I was still living there.
So being a big retro computer fan, how on earth have I never heard of this 8-bit 1980s retro computer developed in New Zealand for New Zealand schools?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly-1
https://www.classic-computers.org.nz/bl ... sition.htm
http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/homepages/and ... y/Poly.htm
For 1981, this seemed like quite an impressive machine. It had 64K RAM, and supported accessing another 64K RAM above that. It had five separate "screens", two text, two graphics, and a background screen that were super imposed on top of each other. - Such a shame that the New Zealand government pulled out of the deal to purchase these to supply to New Zealand schools.
This is a real collectors item.