The Dick Smith VZ-200 and VZ-300 were very popular in Australia and New Zealand from 1983 to 1990. The VZ200 was the same model as the VTech Laser 200.
Despite of its poor chicklet keyboard and short RAM space, users could find hundreds of programs from local magazines, Dick Smith store or from several very active VZ user clubs.
Several peripherals and add-on were quickly available, among them, a 16 KB RAM plug-in module, a tape recorder, a mouse, a Speech Synthesiser and later a floppy disc drive unit.
See a complete review of the VZ 200 in the 'Read more' page.
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This modell even was sold in Germany, it was my first computer. I bought it with 64 kb extrenseion, spend many nights with programmeing. The magazine Chip posted for TRS 80 an assembler and a debugger. With a friend we changed the adresses and used the extension. Most people used Commodore or Atari, because of grafics and music. But there was no MS-Basic, and we wanted to get experience in this standard language.
Wednesday 26th September 2012
Axel (Germany)
I still remember the different memory addresses, such as using "POKE 30744,1" to invert the colours in text mode.
Monday 16th January 2012
Jeremy (Australia)
The vz200 was the first computer that I bought for my children as a Christmas present. They''re still active with computers. Somewhere in storage I should still have it and its big brother the 300. I have 3 grand children and they are all owners of their own laptop. life goes on.
Friday 7th October 2011
dianne johnson
NAME
VZ200
MANUFACTURER
Dick Smith
TYPE
Home Computer
ORIGIN
Australia
YEAR
1982
END OF PRODUCTION
Unknown
BUILT IN LANGUAGE
Microsoft BASIC
KEYBOARD
45 rubber keys, Basic instructions and graphic symbols
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