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Post by Dbug »

Hi.

Today I took some photos of my Pravetz 8D and Oric Telestrat, uploaded the picture on Wikimedia Commons (with the full public domain licence so anyone can do whatever they want with these), and then I added the photos on the Oric Computers/Tangerine article of Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangerine_Computer_Systems

Thanks go to Twilighte for the suggestion :)
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Post by tingo »

Very cool! Nice photos, too. :)
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Thanks, took some time and cleaning up (my telestrat has quite a lot of scratches on the plastic unfortunately), but in the end I guess it looks decently good :)
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Post by Chema »

BTW DBug, in the wikipedia article it states:
This modification enabled the Oric-1 user to add a second rom (containing the Oric Atmos system) to a spare rom socket on the the Oric-1 circuit board. Then, using a basic DPST (double pole single toggle) switch, the user could then switch between the new Oric Atmos rom and the original Oric-1 rom at her or his leisure.
I got one of those kits, which included the keyboard, the 1.1 rom, a new keyboard connector, the atmos manuals and the plastic stick with the Oric logo (which I lost, unfortunately). Not sure if they did not make the conversion as they should, but I did not get the rom placed on the spare rom socket (I think there is no socket there, I need to check that), but simply they replaced the rom with the new one. I think the option mentioned in the wikipedia was not possible in my kit (?).
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Yeah I believe most people just had the new case + keyboard + rom replacement, they could not switch between the two roms.
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