Hi, I read somewhere a guy described the Amiga 1200 motherboard as big dongle for the rest of his computer. :) Jeri --- Miika Seppanen <miika.seppanen@saunalahti.fi> wrote: > >the original Apple II. At what point did this > family > >tree no longer produce Apple II computers? > > Hmm... These were made by Apple. If Apple called > them "Apple II", then they > are Apple II's. If Apple would have named the > Macintosh also "Apple II", > then it would be an Apple II too. ;-) The > manufacturer is the issue in my > point of view. > > >That's exactly what were doing here with Jeri's > >project you see. We (well, Jeri really) are > >integrating discreet components and adding advanced > >hardware features. > > Yes, but AFAIK Jeri is not the CBM (though that > wouldn't be a bad thing, > right? ;-) Anyway, as I said, her board seems to be > so appropriate extension > for the C64 (while still keeping most of the > backward compatibility), that I > can happily consider such a C64 as "real thing." > What to say about > completely new mainboard, I wouldn't call it a > "real" C64. I guess this > thing depends very much of individual's own sight. > And, of course, this > "maybe-not-so-real-C64-if-you-think-so" would be a > very fascinating product > anyway, though as for myself, I'd prefer an > expansion board. > > >By the way, your definition excludes the C-128 from > >the C-64 family because the C-64 motherboard and > >keyboard are not present. The C-128 actually uses > > Of course, because it's a C128, not C64. As more > precisely, it's a REAL > C128... ;-) > > -Miika > > - > This message was sent through the cbm-hackers > mailing list. > To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail cbm-hackers-request@dot.tml.hut.fi. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ - This message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list. To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail cbm-hackers-request@dot.tml.hut.fi.
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