DAI Advert - July 1982
From Personal Computer World
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When you outgrow your personal computer, that's the time you'll wish you-d bought a DAI
Rather than being the name of a computer made by a staunchly Welsh computer company, the curiously-shaped DAI comes from Belgian company Data Applications International.
It had 48K RAM and a generous 24K ROM, which included its BASIC, as well as a machine-code monitor and a disk operating system.
Its retail price of £595 + VAT, despite the good spec, was very high at about £2,940 in 2024 terms, which priced it well above the £150 (£640) that the VIC-20 was selling at towards the end of 1982, and even more than the £400 (£1,720) of Acorn's BBC Micro.
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