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PostPosted: Thu Nov 07, 2024 3:07 pm 
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Found this in the January 1980 Byte magazine:

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That MINIMAX II would be about $23K today!!!

Didi you ever use one of these?

Bring out your 6502 oddities and curiosities..

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 08, 2024 2:58 am 
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This might have been its disk drive. "The Minimax II is also known as the ACT Series 800."

https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det ... k%20Drive/

And here's the ACT Series 800. Looks very similar.

https://nosher.net/archives/computers/p ... uthink_act

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I recently found out that the Panasonic HHC is 6502 based. Maybe not an oddity, but quite interesting.

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 10, 2024 9:28 am 
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(Panasonic HHC featured 10 years ago in our weekly posts!)


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I do like a nice tidy DIP board :)

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 10, 2024 11:19 pm 
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jds wrote:
I recently found out that the Panasonic HHC is 6502 based. Maybe not an oddity, but quite interesting.
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We got one of those with printer and some expansion (ROM) modules for Life Insurance calculations.
It was given to us 20 some years ago as a joke wedding gift!


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