Owner of collection Petri Turunen - Helsinki Finland

AQUARIUS links and manual copies

First version was codename "Checkers". Later that become Aquarius.
It was home computer with Z80 CPU, 4kb ram, 8kb rom, 40x24 charachter display with 16 colours. User ram was 1.7 kb.

Some first machines use Z80 compatible NEC D780C or Hitachi HD64180 CPU.

Expander attached and 16 kb ram expansion module in place. Note one free expansion slot. This expander unit add also three channel sound chip and joystick interface.

Basic version´s interfaces are cassette recorder, printer and television. That´s that!

There was three memory expansion modules: 4kb, 16kb and 32kb

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Adding some extra memory.

expensive kilobits in 1983

Keyboard feels just like Sinclair Spectrum

Booting up

What is this? It´s not joystick. Early joypad?

Astrosmash

Burgertime

Nightstalker