Dragon Data

Dragon Data was a Welsh company, the home computer based on the Motorola MC6809E microprocessor, the SN74LS783/MC6883 Synchronous Address Multiplexer (SAM ) and the MC6847 Video Display Generator ( VDG ) established. The I / O interface has been implemented using a MC6821 Peripheral Interface Adaptor (PIA ).

The computer produced Dragon 32/64 were similar in basic construction very strongly the Tandy TRS -80 ( " CoCo "). The standard BASIC interpreter was 16K in size and was supplied by Microsoft, which was still very young and unknown at the time.

The history of Dragon Data was relatively brief and took place between the years 1982 and 1984. The company was originally from the toy company Mettoy. Go to start of sales of the computer sales were very good and it looked as if Dragon Data would have a successful future. At the height of the Dragon Business Data began negotiations with the company Tano, to order to go into the U.S. market. Mettoy then had economic problems, so that Dragon Data was separated from the parent company. Due to technical problems in the production of the computer, some of which no longer corresponded to the market standards other home computers of the time, the company lost market share.

To counter this trend, Dragon Data developed new computer models (Dragon alpha and beta), but on the prototype never got. After that Dragon Data was sold in 1984 to the Spanish startup businesses Euro Hard, but which also gave up a few years later.