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Spectravideo SVI-328 closeout sale ad

Spectravideo SVI computers were manufactured by Bondwell? Gee, every day I learn something new about computing history. Besides, it seems a bit strange to pair a SVI-328 with a tape recorder. Even here in the land of cassettes well into the early 1990's, most 328 packages were floppy based while the cheaper 318 model was paired with a tape recorder for the relatively short stretch of time they were on the market.

I wonder why the video cable is something "you probably don't need". Anyone trying serious computing like word processing or even running CP/M (ok, will definitely require a floppy solution) would do anything to get a better picture than what RF outputs.

As Spectravideo produced MSX compatibles like the 728, 738 and even desktop PC SVI-838 with built-in MSX mode, I kind of wonder about them closing down (in the States) and being a subsidiary of Bondwell?

Hm, yes. Roger Samdal's Spectravideo page agrees:
http://www.samdal.com/svhistory.htm

However it seems Bondwell moved the Spectravideo brand to Hong Kong and continued to produce computers under the brand name, thus my confusion above.
 
I wouldn't be surprised if all those programs were designed for the SV-318. And the ones on the right side of the first page, without the SVI or Spectravideo logo on them, look like either homebrews or individual mock-ups of games that actually came on one multi-game cassette.
 
As far as I know, the 328 is a superset of the 318 anyway so it might be so that none of the tape games require all 64K RAM. I wonder if the reseller had any surplus floppy drives and expansion boxes too at the point of time, 1985. If they had, they could've put together CP/M compatible systems at rather competitive prices, unless other CP/M computers also were heavily discounted back then.
 
Fascinating! I didn't know much about DAK in the 80s, but they seem to have done quite a bit of computer liquidating. They sold quite a few of the Epson PX-8 CP/M laptop systems back then.
 
I used to buy stuff from DAK once in a while back then. Their catalogs had all kinds of interesting closeout stuff--I even bought my first computer printer from them, an Olivetti sparkjet that used little glass tubes of dry ink that it burned onto the paper. It worked great, but it was nearly impossible to get the ink later, so I had to get rid of it once I finally ran out (I'd bought a couple of packs of spares from DAK with the printer, but I was only ever able to find one additional pack on the aftermarket).
 
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