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CaptainNemo
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1983

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Ah, the eighties... I was shorter, thinner and popular with the girls at school... Got a Dragon 64 as a birthday present and it felt like the future arrived. My father helped connect my Sharp boombox to the Dragon, but it always failed loading. We gave-up trying because I had an Atari 2600 to play games on, so for the first six or seven months I had to retype all my Basic programs EVERY TIME I turned the machine on, and copy the code to a notebook before I turned it off! I still keep 3 or 4 notebooks full of code. A classmate finally showed me how to set the recorder volume correctly... :?

My Dragon 64 is still in great condition, along with a joystick and a few games. Back then I had to justify to my parents every purchase that wasn't school-related, and believe me it was hard... I remember that the E key stopped responding once, and a local computer store charged a fortune to fix it. I'm a fast learner, so as soon as I had enough money, I bought a bottle of compressed contact cleaner. Lately I also had to resolder a loose connector under the Q key.

A month ago I've purchased a Tano Dragon from CA Digital; I just love the keyboard echo so I had to buy me another one... 8-)

Anyway, this is my first post here, so I thought you'd all like to read my Dragon story. I could also write about the great synthpop music of that period, but that's another story...


Be seeing you!
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Welcome aboard.

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Re: 1983

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Welcome to the Archive!

Nice story, indeed. I'm pretty confident that you'll enjoy the people here and don't hesitate to ask anything, we'll be glad to help you.

Rob
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Re: 1983

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Hello and welcome to this forum.
The more we are the stronger the group is!
Don't hesitate to put questions, here you will find a lot of excellent experts in the 6x09 world!

best regards
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Re: 1983

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Welcome to the Dragon forums! :)
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Re: 1983

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Wow, retyping your programs every time you needed them. That's Dragon dedication. :D

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Re: 1983

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CaptainNemo wrote:A month ago I've purchased a Tano Dragon from CA Digital; I just love the keyboard echo so I had to buy me another one... 8-)
Maybe it was one of the last available, isn't it?
... too many ideas and too little time ... Related stuff written in Python:
Dragon 32 emulator / PyDC - Python Dragon 32 converter: https://github.com/jedie/DragonPy
DWLOAD server / Dragon-Lib and other stuff: https://github.com/6809
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CaptainNemo
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Re: 1983

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They still had plenty of them when I purchased mine around mid-March.
Shipping is a bit pricy because of the box size, but you'll get a NOS Dragon! :)
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Re: 1983

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CaptainNemo wrote:They still had plenty of them when I purchased mine around mid-March.
Shipping is a bit pricy because of the box size, but you'll get a NOS Dragon! :)
Their website (http://www.cadigital.com/) has been "unavailable" since January 2014. How do we contact them to ask?
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Re: 1983

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zephyr wrote:Their website (http://www.cadigital.com/) has been "unavailable" since January 2014. How do we contact them to ask?
Maybe the mail worked? I have two: laser@cadigital.com and catalog@cadigital.com
... too many ideas and too little time ... Related stuff written in Python:
Dragon 32 emulator / PyDC - Python Dragon 32 converter: https://github.com/jedie/DragonPy
DWLOAD server / Dragon-Lib and other stuff: https://github.com/6809
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