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     text: '''''The memory tool'''''
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-  comments:
-  - author: former basis user (usa)
-    date: Monday 1st August 2022
-    text: But I did get some money for recycling the huge and thick Basis aluminum cases!!! One could pretty much drive a car over them without damage - and I stood on the cases several times to reach something on a high shelf.
-  - author: former basis user (usa)
-    date: Monday 1st August 2022
-    text: I had two Basis 108s, each with the two floppy drives. I was also in the user group, communication over a telephone handset modem. I needed CP/M for Wordstar, and the 6502 to run programs colleagues had written. I really did like those Basis machines, but eventually I needed more computing power, so switched to a PC (I might have stayed with Apple, had they not locked everything up with the Lisa - I need to be able to choose my own hardware and software, not have Jobs do it for me).
-  - author: Charlie Weesner (Tucson, Az)
-    date: Friday 23rd May 2014
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-      I used my Basis 108 for two or three years. The 16 MB retro-fit hard disk, and everything. There was a "Basis Users Group" with about 125 members (peak). I moved from Apple DOS to p-system, then to CP/M. Almost everything worthwhile I did under CP/M - including a command processor replacement whose name I don''t recall. I upgraded the 2 MHz 8080 CPU on the motherboard with an 8 MHz Z80 card. Centronics port to a dot-matrix printer. Serial port to a Hayes modem.
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-      Eventually Basis got shut out for copyright infrigement on Apple DOS in ROM.
-  - author: Ed Weiner
-    date: Friday 12th April 2013
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-      I too had a Basis 108. I visited a nice couple in Munster, Germany and got the first upgrade z80 card to run at 4.5\
-      Also a very smart audio engineer, a Mr. Smith, in Cali, adapted a $995 hard drive to work with the Basis. The hard drive Co. failed in their attempt.
-  - author: Peter Gilvarry (USA formerly Hong Kong)
-    date: Wednesday 11th April 2012
-    text: I had one of theses that was built under a licence in Hong Kong, known as Medfly. I belonged to a US based user''s group and learned a lot about computing using this PC. I ran both Applesoft and CPM on it for many years.
-  - author: Andy Harper (USA)
-    date: Sunday 19th February 2012
-    text: I remember playing Karatika on this computer. I think Lotus 123 was used as well.
-  - author: RockDoctor (Minnesota, US)
-    date: Tuesday 16th November 2010
-    text: The Basis 108 was my first personal computer. Bought it in spring, 1982, so that I''d have a unit at home compatible with the Apple II in my office. It served me well!
-  - author: George (USA)
-    date: Tuesday 5th January 2010
-    text: Why did Basis fail?
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     url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230608082659/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=92