MicroDaSys Advert - December 1978
From Byte - The Small Systems Journal
Get it out of your system: MicroDaSys makes it easy
On the face of it, this is yet another Motorola 6800-based system with an S-100 bus, however it's perhaps the micro which more than any other most closely resembles an actual typewriter.
It's shown above with a couple of plug-in cartridges - BASIC, and the legendary Spacewar, one of the first ever computer games when it was created in 1962 on a DEC PDP-1.
Like its contemporary Polymorphic, MicroDaSys, or sometimes Microdasys, was offering a numbered range of "Systems", starting with the System 1.
This was built around the MD-690A computer board - which was upgradable to Motorola's latest 6809 CPU - and came with the console, a keyboard, power supply and graphics card for $549 in kit form, or about £2,990 in 2024.
The System 2 came with a 32K RAM card, although it only had 8K included, and sold for $699 - £3,520 in 2024.
Date created: 20 December 2023
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