[torontocbm] Re: Compuscope Supermother for the Vic-20
- From: "Ken Rath" <kenrath@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <torontocbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 19:19:55 -0400
Hard to believe that it was over 4 years ago that I wrote the original
E-mail asking about this!
Anyways, I finally found a picture and a brief "product announcement" of the
expansion board - it was the CompuScope SuperMother - I used to have for my
first Vic-20 back in the mid 80s. I've included them below. I found them
in the September 1983 issue of MicroComputing.
I never did have the original instructions or cassette tape software.
However, that "BlockSave" software sounds like it would have been neat and
handy to try back then!
Enjoy! J
Ken Rath
CompuscopSuperMother-Vic20.jpg
CompuscopSuperMother-Vic20-PA1.jpg
CompuscopSuperMother-Vic20-PA2.jpg
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Subject: [torontocbm] Compuscope Supermother for the Vic-20
Years ago when I had my first Vic-20 I bought an expansion board for it from
a company down in the USA. This expansion board was as wide as the Vic-20
and if I remember correctly about 1.5 times as deep. It had a ton of
cartridge slots in it. You could put all of your RAM expansion carts in and
then put in a bunch of game cartridges as well. There were two rows of
cartridge slots on this board. The slots for the "games" had switches to
enable them before powering on. That way if you had 3 or more "favourite"
game cartridges you could leave them plugged in all the time and just flip
the switch for the one you wanted to play.
Sadly, there came a time where I had to sell all of my Vic-20 items so I no
longer have that expansion board. :(
I can't remember what the expansion board was called but I suspect after
reading the "Cartridge Rarity List" that it was the Compuscope Supermother.
The description almost fits what I can remember about the board that I had.
Does anyone have any pictures, docs, etc for this Compuscope Supermother
that they could E-mail me? I've searched for some via Google but so far
haven't had any luck.
Thanks! :)
Ken Rath
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