Specifications

More computer for nearly half the price!
If you're really serious about computing, you're probably looking
at the IBM PC. It's a superb computer - but look at the price; way
over $5,000 for a usable system, then you start buying the programs!
Now there's a brilliant, compatible alternative: the Dick Smith
Challenger. For near 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).
An IBM PC expanded to this level would cost you over $5,300*,
yet the expanded Challenger costs only $2990.
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.
A few odd programs rely specifically on minor internal details of the
IBM PC which cannot be duplicated legally on other machines.
*Prices correct as at 24/7/84
The Challenger is about as compatible with the IBM as you can
get. This means it can run just about all of the huge ange of software
written for the PC - just pop in the disk, load and go!
Plus software worth over S800 - FREE!!!
That's right - with the Challenger Expansion Unit, we give you a
set of software and manuals worth over EIGHT HUNDRED
DOLLARS. absolutely FREE! With the IBM PC, it's all optional
at extra cost! It's all the software you're likely to need for most
home and office computing: MICROSOFT MS-DOS,GW DISK,
BASIC, PERFECT WRITER, SPELLER, PERFECT FILER &
PERFECT CALC.
Leasing, commercial finance or Bankcard are all available to
approved customers.
Challenger is the registered trademark of Dick Smith
Electronics.
8
ELECTRONICS
■
Get
Challenger total system $2990/
your
FREE
Challenger
Information
Pack.
Name 
/ Address

 Phone 
PTY LTD
in 52 Dick Smith Electronics stores/
Would you use the Challenger for:
/
e ,
LJ Business 0 Education 0 Fun 0 Other
Post to: Dick Smith Electronics, PO Box 321. North Ryde, NSNA
2113 or call in to ■
our nearest Dick Smith Computer Centre
throughout Australasia