VTech Laser 110

VTech Laser 110

Autopsy:

from old-computers.com homepage:

The Laser 100/110 was the first model of the Laser 100/200/300 family. The ROM was nearly identical to the one of the Tandy Radio-Shack TRS-80 Color Computer, with only minor changes. It’s so close that when people write Laser emulators, they use TRS-80 CoCo ROM documentations (Laser detailed documentations are hard to find, especially about the ROM itslef).

The Basic was a Microsoft Basic just slightly modified to avoid lawsuits, some statements being stored in the ROM but not available on the machine! Like the most of the Vtech products, the Laser 100/110 was “cheaply” conceived: chicklet keyboard, plastic case, light-weight… It was produced to compete against the first wave of micro-computers like the famous Sinclair ZX-81.

The difference between the Laser 100 and the Laser 110 must be the RAM size (like the Laser 200 and 210), though very little information on the Laser 100 is available. The biggest difference with its big brother the Laser 200 was that it only had a black & white display. An obscure VZ-100 version was also released but this wasn’t the same machine as the VZ series sold in Australia and New-Zealand by Dick Smith Electronics.

source: old-computers.com

  1. July 15th, 2013 at 20:48 | #1

    I have this computer (laser 110). I would like to sell it. you want to buy it?

  2. July 24th, 2013 at 20:03 | #2

    salve, io ho il computer in oggetto, e’ praticamente nuovo, e’ interessato all’acquisto?

  3. July 24th, 2013 at 23:25 | #3

    @raffaele

    Salve Raffaele,

    Ho visto l’annuncio che ha messo su eBAY e sia il prezzo proposto che quello che gli ha consigliato un suo amico su eBAY e’ completamente errato, il pezzo che vede qui in alto mi e’ stato regalato, ma volendo comprarlo avrei speso 20 euro , dunque inscatolato e intonso con manuali , potrebbe valere attorno ai 60 Euro.

    Non e’ un pezzo raro, ne sono stati venduti parecchi soprattutto nei paesi nordici.

    Cordiali saluti e buona fortuna per la vendita.

  4. Alberto
    January 30th, 2018 at 16:00 | #4

    Ciao a tutti, sono entrato in possesso di un Laser 110 con espansione RAM e registratore a cassette. Il registratore è della Sanyo, ha l’uscita cuffie, l’ingresso microfono e un ulteriore ingresso con jack piccolo denominato “remote”.
    Purtroppo non ho il cavetto di connessione tra Laser e registratore, e in rete non si trovano schemi. Qualcuno sa aiutarmi?

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