Posted By
Carlsson
on 2007-03-29
03:16:02
|  Re: Unknown TED machine?
Haha, subliminary messages written directly onto the board. Maybe manufacturers of today should put BUY ME! on the box to attract customers.
I picked up this board from a retired PET/CBM reseller, who also had a small side business in software development. As per Bil Herd, this may be an early board sent to developers around the world to prepare TED line software before the launch.
It spurs the discussion when Plus/4 was officially available. In the US, it did not seem to appear until October 1984, and probably true for most part of Europe too. In Canada however, there are indications that Plus/4 was available already in February 1984, and some sources claim other TED based machines were for sale already at Christmas 1983, which is odd as Commodore presented the 264 and 364 on CES in January 1984...
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