System afterlife

[Harrison]

$300 is still quite expensive. Especially for something you probably hardly use. Although for collecting it's quite a cool piece of hardware.

[v85rawdeal]

I would still have loved to get my hands on a full Konix system (with chair)

Now that looked like a cool piece of kit, with a whopping 25 channels of sound(!) and a flippy dosk as well.

And it was, if I remember correctly, Welsh!!!

[Harrison]

The Welsh haven't been too successful over the years regarding computer hardware have there. Remember the Sam Coupe?

[AlexJ]

The Dragon 32 Computer was another commercial failure from Wales.

[J T]

Over on the WoS boards boards, I've seen quite a bit of love for the Vectrex. Anyone here ever seen one, or even better tried one?

[Harrison]

Over on the WoS boards boards, I've seen quite a bit of love for the Vectrex. Anyone here ever seen one, or even better tried one?

I've only ever seen a Vectrex in books and magazines. A vector based console would be really cool.

[Harrison]

The Dragon 32 Computer was another commercial failure from Wales.

I remember the Dragon. A friend of mine had one and it wasn't a bad computer, just not supported by any well known software developers, so it had next to no software. If I remember rightly it has a more advanced CPU than any other 8-bit system at the time and even have some 16-bit abilities. And it was compatible with a lot of TRS-80 software.