Specifications

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Challenger total
system only
$2990
Monitor not included -
shown is our optional
high resolution green
screen monitor.
Cat X-1220 only $249.
Keyboard slips inside case
for storage!
More computer
for half the price!
If you're really serious about computing, you're
probably looking at the IBM PC. Its a superb
computer - but look at the price: way over $6000
for a usable system, and then you have to start
buying programs!
Now there's a brilliant, compatible alternative:
the Dick Smith Challenger.
For less than half the
price of an IBM PC, it gives you much more
computer. With Challenger you get 128K bytes of
RAM memory, for example - not just 64K. And on
the expanded machine you also get both Centronics
and RS-232C serial ports as standard (IBM
charges you extra for both).
And the quality is guaranteed! Each Dick Smith
Challenger is individually 100% computer tested
and comes complete with its own test result, con-
firming that it meets, or exceeds, all specifications.
Is it really IBM
compatible?
Compatibility is a tricky business; some software
made for the IBM PC won't even work on certain
configurations of the PC itself.
The Challenger is about as compatible with the
IBM
PC as you can get. This means it can run just
about all of the huge range of software written for
the PC - just pop in the disk or cassette, load and
go!
Quality- PLUS!
Apart from being manufactured in an automated
factory with the consistency of quality that entails,
every Dick Smith Challenger undergoes rigorous
and thorough automated testing - and comes with
its own test certificate! So the quality and reliability
are outstanding.
System Unit
This is the basic computer, which can be used
by itself for hobby computing. It offers much more
than other machines - at a very attractive price!
Specifications:
CPU:
8086 full 16-bit processor running at
4.77MHz.
RAM:
128K internally expandable to 256K, 16K
video RAM.
ROM:
64K including Microsoft GW BASIC, diag-
nostics, cassette operating system.
KEYBOARD:
Separate unit with 84 keys including
numeric/cursor control group, 10 function keys.
CHARACTER SET:
256 expanded ASCII, in ROM.
RESOLUTION:
320 x 200 or 640 x 200.
COLOUR GRAPHICS:
8 colours with scroll,
reverse, blinking.
INPUT/OUTPUT:
RF output for TV receiver, com-
posite video and RGB outputs for video monitors;
cassette I/O port; joystick port; light pen port;
Centronics-type parallel printer port: inbuilt
speaker.
Cat X-8600
The IBM PC with equivalent features would cost
you at least $1700 - if they'd sell you one!
YOU SAVE OVER
$ 700
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Expansion Unit
Add this expansion unit, and the basic
Challenger computer becomes more than equiva-
lent to a fully expanded IBM PC- PLUS a complete
set of disk software and manuals.
Specifications:
DISK DRIVES:
Twin slimline, double sided double
density, total storage capacity 720K bytes.
INPUT/OUTPUT:
RS-232C serial communications
port.
EXPANSION:
Three IBM PC compatible expansion
slots, two true 16-bit expansion slots.
SOFTWARE INCLUDED:
Microsoft MS-DOS and
GW Disk BASIC; Perfect Writer, Perfect Calc;
Perfect Filer, PLUS user manuals.
Cat X-8610
ONLY
$ 1995
ext a
An IBM PC expanded to this level would cost you
well over $7000
Yet the expanded Challenger costs only $2990.
YOU SAVE OVER
$ 4000 H
$9
DICK SMITH
PLUS software worth
over
180 -Free.
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That's right - with the Challenger Expansion
Unit, we give you a set of software and manuals
worth over
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS,
absolutely
FREE!
With the IBM PC, it's all optional
at extra cost!
We don't give you useless software, either. For
most home and office computing you won't need
anything else!
MICROSOFT MS-DOS, GW DISK BASIC -
most
widely used disk operating system and disk BASIC
for the IBM PC itself. But with the IBM these cost
you over $60 extra!
PERFECT WRITER/SPELLER -
one of the most
popular word processing systems in the world.
Worth at least $790 alone!
PERFECT FILER-
lets you design your own filing
systems and mailing lists. Worth over $675!
PERFECT CALC -
the electronic spreadsheet to
beat them all. Worth over $330 as well!
Electronics
See page 98 for full address details.