Talk:Dragon 32/64

message: >>Additionally as a cost cutting/memory saving measure only upper case character set was available.<<
This wasn't a cost cutting measure, the MC6847 video display chip only had upper case characters.  And in any case, 32 characters could be redefined, so it wasn't a restriction.
>>The Dragon has additional circuitry to make the MC6847 VDG compatible with European 625-line television standards, rather than the US 525-line NTSC standard, and a Centronics parallel printer port not present on the TRS-80. Some models were manufactured with NTSC video for the US and Canadian markets.<<
The Tandy also was made for PAL, and they used the same shortcut method as the Dragon, resulting in rather tiny screen, this was more of an issue.  Some of the far eastern clones ie VZ200 and Color Genie were actually better adapted in that they inserted blank lines to make the PAL screen.60.231.232.112 (talk) 02:32, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: MC6847

message: On Tandy/Dragon cross-compatability, might be worth noting that BASIC programs had to be 'retokenised' IIRC. Linuxlad 22:07, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Tandy/Dragon cross-compatibility

message: Just to have mentioned it: the source of my recent corrections in the trivia section is the book by Vander Reyden. --Wernher 06:19, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources for "Special features trivia"

message: I know it sounds silly, but I honestly believe that my old Dragon 32 had 16K of memory. I've a vague memory of someone telling me the 32 meant it could be upgraded to 32K.
Can anyone confirm?
--JimmyTheWig 15:10, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Since nobody else seems to have mentioned it here, the "16K" confusion was common due to Microsoft's not entirely helpful "16K Basic Interpreter" banner message; it had me wondering for a while, and most other people who saw it thought it referred to the amount of usable memory rather than the amount of ROM occupied by BASIC.--194.247.53.233 (talk) 11:05, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Amount of memory 

message: I lived in Coventry, England at the time Dragon computers were taking the market by storm, and I well remember the just-in-time-for-Christmas introduction of the long-anticipated Dragon 64, which came in a distinctive grey casing so you could tell it was the latest and greatest, and the floods of them that were returned at the end of December because of a manufacturing defect that rendered the machines useless. 
I'd always assumed that this fiasco was a key event in Dragon going out of business. Does this not ring a bell with anyone? I had a friend in the business of writing third-party software for the Dragon who was severely discomoded by the affair, yet I see no mention in the main article of the event. 
Dragon computers had killed the market for Tandy Colour Computers in Coventry the previous Christmas, but Radio Shack did a roaring trade in joysticks. With a little work, either using POKE or a soldering iron, the Tandy joystick would work with the Dragon 32 (as would the Tandy assembler plug-in module). 
Steve Mann.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.185.151.193 (talk) 20:56, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dragon 64 Recall 

message: Did Dragon Data ever consider producing a computer compatible with the Coco 3?
:The CoCo page says the CoCo 3 was announced in July 1986.  Given that Dragon Data went out of business in 1984, I think that's a "no".  Blufive (talk) 22:25, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coco 3? 

message: "The numerous external ports" - is that a joke? --88.192.12.234 (talk) 11:23, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  LOL 

message: Does anyone recall whether they were giving away Dragons with packets of Weekabix at some point(if you collected the tokens)?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.195.27.254 (talk) 14:46, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weekabix 

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message: "In terms of raw computational power, the Dragon beat most of its contemporary rivals based on the older MOS Technology 6502" - where are the citations? It was only running at 0.89 Mhz and the 6809 has a fairly slow instruction time. Sophie Wilson states that the 6809 did not make good use of the memory system which was the real bottleneck of performance.  http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2012/06/102746190-05-01-acc.pdf
Djmips (talk) 07:26, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed it, along with another comment about the monitor port - Atari, CBM, BBC etc - all had monitor ports.   Chaheel Riens (talk) 08:18, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Boasting of it's computational power