--- title: Dragon Data Ltd Dragon 200 categories: - Computers types: - Home Computer origins: - Spain years: - '1984' cpus: - Motorola 6809E params: name: Dragon 200 image: /media/museum/photos/dragon_200_system_s3.jpg company: /companies/dragon-data-ltd company_name: Dragon Data Ltd specs: - label: NAME value: Dragon 200 - label: MANUFACTURER value: Dragon Data Ltd - label: TYPE value: Home Computer - label: ORIGIN value: Spain - label: YEAR value: '1984' - label: END OF PRODUCTION value: '1986' - label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE value: Microsoft BASIC interpreter - label: KEYBOARD value: Full stroke 53 keys (with Spanish characters for Spanish version) - label: CPU value: Motorola 6809E - label: SPEED value: 1 MHz - label: CO-PROCESSOR value: Motorola 6847 video chip - label: RAM value: 64 KB - label: ROM value: 16 KB - label: TEXT MODES value: 32 chars. x 16 lines - label: GRAPHIC MODES value: 128 x 96 dots (4 colours), 256 x 192 (2 colours) - label: COLORS value: '8' - label: SOUND value: |- 1 voice / 5 octaves with BASIC commands\ 4 voices / 7 octaves with machine code - label: SIZE / WEIGHT value: Unknown (close to the Dragon 64) - label: I/O PORTS value: Cartridge connector, Tape recorder, TV modulator, RGB, Parallel printer, Serial, 2 x joysticks - label: OS value: OS-9 with optional floppy disc unit - label: POWER SUPPLY value: Built-in power regulation. External AC transformer - label: PERIPHERALS value: 1 or 2 floppy dics drives unit - label: PRICE value: Unknown tabs: - photos - hardware - software - links forum_thread: 917 photos: - title: LARGE VIEW subtitle: '' text: Thanks to **[Fabrice Siravo](http://www.mapetitecollection.com)** who lent us its Dragon 200 image: /media/museum/photos/dragon_200_system_s2.jpg - title: KEYBOARD CLOSE-UP subtitle: '' text: The keyboard is the same as the Dragon 64 apart from the addition of a power Led. image: /media/museum/photos/dragon_200_keyboard_s1.jpg - title: SIDE VIEWS subtitle: '' text: Like the Dragon 32 and 64 models, the Dragon 200 has a cartridge connector on the right side. image: /media/museum/photos/dragon_200_sides_s1.jpg - title: INSIDE subtitle: '' text: The electronics of the Dragon 200 is exactly the same as the Dragon 64's. See the Dragon 64 Inside picture for more details. image: /media/museum/photos/dragon_200_mainboard_s1.jpg - title: EUROHARD LABEL subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/photos/dragon_200_label_s1.jpg - title: 'THE BOX #1' subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/photos/dragon_200_box_s1.jpg - title: 'THE BOX #2' subtitle: '' text: |- The box pictures summarize all the marketing arguments used to sell a home computer at the time:\ • A computer for all the family,\ • to learn programming languages,\ • to pay games,\ • to manage personal datas (note that dad plays and mom manages serious tasks),\ • to revise school syllabus. image: /media/museum/photos/dragon_200_box_s2.jpg hardware: - title: 5'' DISK-DRIVE subtitle: '' text: '186k, Single Side, Operating system: OS9' image: /media/museum/hardware/dragon_diskdrive.jpg - title: THE DRAGON 32/64 DUAL 5.25'' DISK-DRIVE subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/hardware/dragon_64_doublefd_1.jpg - title: INSIDE F.D. UNIT subtitle: '' text: |- The disk drive option is provided in 2 parts: the floppy drive unit, and an interface cartridge connected to the computer. Each formated disk can hold 180 Kb. Data are stored on 40 concentric tracks, each one made of 18 sectors of 256 bytes each. **(1)** One or two disk drives can be mounted in the case.\ **(2)** Interface cartridge that fits into the Dragon expansion connector.\ **(3)** First disk drive.\ **(4)** Magnetic heads and its mechanisms.\ **(5)** Disk rotation motors.\ **(6)** Power supply.\ **(7)** Connector for the cartridge flat cable. image: /media/museum/hardware/dragon_32_insidefd_1.jpg - title: DRAGON JOYSTICKS subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/hardware/dragon_joysticks.jpg - title: 'DRAGON JOYSTICK #2' subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/hardware/dragon_64_joystick_s1.jpg - title: LIGHT PEN subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/hardware/dragon_lightpen.jpg - title: DUST COVER subtitle: '' text: Beautiful, no ?! image: /media/museum/hardware/dragons-data_dragon32_dustcover_1.jpg screenshots: - title: BONKA subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/dragon_bonka.jpg - title: COSMIC ZAP subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/dragon_cosmiczap.jpg - title: FROGGER subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/dragon_frogger.jpg - title: KATERPILLAR ATTACK subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/dragon_katerpillar_attack.jpg - title: LEGGIT subtitle: '' text: '' image: /media/museum/software/dragon_leggit.jpg links: - title: Dragon & Tandy CoCo Resources url: http://www.burgins.com/dragon.html text: '' - title: Dragon, The Archive url: http://www.dragondata.co.uk/ text: Nice and complete Dragon dedicated site - title: Graham's Dragon Page url: http://www.grempc.demon.co.uk/dragon/ text: Information, articles and links related to the Dragon - title: Home of On-A-Stick Productions Inc. or jon's home page url: http://www.onastick.clara.net/ text: '' - title: The DRAGON Archive url: http://www.dragon-archive.co.uk/ text: A site dedicated to the Dragon series of computers. Includes software archive, history of the dragon and much more. related: - /museum/dragon-data-ltd-dragon-32 - /museum/dragon-data-ltd-dragon-64 oc_id: 941 source: url: https://web.archive.org/web/20221208061525/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=941 date: '2022-12-08' --- The Dragon 200 was basically a [Dragon 64](/museum/dragon-data-ltd-dragon-64/) with a modified case allowing a monitor to be placed on top of it. A power LED was also added. The case was designed in Spain by **EuroHard**, a subsidiary of Dragon Data of U.K. which eventually bought its parent company. EuroHard also built the computer but it was sold in Spain by **IDS**. The Dragon 200 was a commercial success in Spain and some south European countries, as well as the 200E, a version equipped with a 80-column video card. However, despite several attempts to produces other ranges of computers, among them the Dragon MSX, the production stopped in 1986 and EuroHard closed its doors in 1988.
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