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Some interesting comments from John Lavett from Australia:
I looked up my all-time favourite PC on your site, the Unitron U-2200,
which was the best of the Apple II clones. I started importing them into
Australia from Unitron in Taiwan in 1983. They were fantastically
reliable machines and the fact that they had a separate keyboard/chassis
really helped sell them to people who wanted to use them for
professional word processing.
The specifications you have against the picture of the machine are a bit
sketchy. The following fills in some of the gaps:
- CPU: Dual processor, 1MHz 6502A and 2MHz Z80
- RAM: 64K expandable to 128K
- Built-in (on motherboard): 80-column card, disk interface, game I/O,
tape I/O
We sold many to students who were buying them so that they could run
UCSD p-System Pascal, Compass Pascal (the forerunner to Borland Turbo
Pascal) and dBase II etc. The strength of the machine was its in-built
Z80 and 80 column card, which gave it great versatility.
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