Last updated 28th, April, 2001

The Dick Smith VZ-200 / VZ-300 computer.


Three of the four different keyboard models of the VZ-300. Want some junk? My VZ-200 in my first VZ-300 case. The last style of keyboard of the VZ-300.

Please read copyright and notes at bottom.


History on the VZ.


Technical Manual

Book - Beginners guide to the VZ200/300 Editor Assembler. P.C.Schaper. 47pages. Gif files. 964k
Book - The VZ300 Technical manual (without circuit diagrams). Word 97. 447k
Diagrams - for the VZ300 Technical Manual. (20 in all). size: 1872k
Technical Manual in .PDF format somewhere here. Need to search for it.


ROM Stuff

Info - Disassembly of the VZs startup ROM routine. 12k Text.
Info - Wanna see the ROM of the VZ in all of its glory? With info. 41k .zip


Archi-VZ

Info - Quick reference. Written by Leslie Milburn. 70k .rtf
Newsletter - Archi VZ #1. Written by Leslie Milburn. 22k .rtf
Newsletter - Archi VZ #2. Written by Leslie Milburn. 88k .rtf


Hunter Valley VZ User Group Newsletters and Journals

Hunter Valley VZ Users Group Newsletter #1 - 12pp. 346k
Hunter Valley VZ Users Group Newsletter #2 - 11pp. 305k
Hunter Valley VZ Users Group Newsletter #3 - 20pp. 628k
Hunter Valley VZ Users Group Newsletter #4 - 15pp. 412k
Hunter Valley VZ Users Group Newsletter #5 - 15pp. 424k
Hunter Valley VZ Users Group Newsletter #6 - 18pp. 573k
Hunter Valley VZ Users Group Journal #7 - 11pp. 323k
Hunter Valley VZ Users Group Journal #8/9 - 20pp. 483k
Hunter Valley VZ Users Group Journal #10/11 - 20pp. 551k
Hunter Valley VZ Users Group Journal #12 - 20pp. 600k
Hunter Valley VZ Users Group Journal #13 - 20pp. 650k
Hunter Valley VZ Users Group Journal #15 - 20pp. 739k
Hunter Valley VZ Users Group Journal #16 - 20pp. 694k
Hunter Valley VZ Users Group Journal #26 - 21pp. 658k
Hunter Valley VZ Users Group Journal #27 - 21pp. 773k


VZ Down Under magazine

VZ Down Under #33 - 16pp. 405k
VZ Down Under #34 - 14pp. 363k


Articles

article - Super 2 Modification by Mathew Sorrell. (No Graphics). 27k. Word 97
article - Super 2 Modification graphics for Word 97 article. 1.6meg. .JPG
article - Super 2 Modification (with grafx) by Mathew Sorrell. 688k. .PDF
article - Eprom Programmer for the VZ Part 1. H. Nacinovich. ETI June 1988. (not yet available)
article - Eprom Programmer for the VZ Part 2. H. Nacinovich. ETI June 1988. 1.8meg .ZIP
article - Modifying the '200 16k Memory pack for the '300. Steve Olney. ETI Feb 1986. 1.6meg .ZIP
article - VZ300 Data Logger. ETI July 1988. (not yet available)
article - VZ controlled robot.
article - How to create sprites in the Spriet Generator.
article - Real world interface with the VZ.


Reviews

VZ review - EA 1985-ish?.
VZ review - Cash & Carry Computers. VZ200 review. Your Computer, August 1983.
VZ review - Steve Olneys Extended Basic EXBVS2.2
VZ review - VZ200 review. ETI - July 1983.


Forum

Letter to the editor. Electronics Australia, March, 1985


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Join the VZ Fan emailing list now. To subscribe send a blank email to vzemu-subscribe@yahoogroups.com or go to www.yahoogroups.com and search for vzemu.


Links

VZ Page - http://www.vzalive.50megs.com - Jason Oakley
VZ Page - George Lui
VZ Page - Guy Thomason. Get the emulator here!
VZ Page - Brian Murray
VZ Page - Aztaroths
VZ Page - Computing Museums Laser 210/310
VZ page - VZ200
VZ page - laser110
Video Technology


Got no idea about copyright on this page. I am only assuming that all material here is still copyrighted back to the bloke who originally designed and built the stuff. So all credits go to their owners.

* Hunter Valley newsletters/journals are copyrighted by Gavin Williamson & Joe Leon - Editors and Publishes.
* VZ Down Under magazines are probably copyrighted still to Harry Huggins.
* VZ-200 and VZ-300 were copyrighted to Video Technology of down-town Hong Kong back in 1981 thru to around 1990.
* The QWERTY keyboard was named by someone who couldn't read proper.
* 12 volts was made possible by Mr Volta.
* Princess black and white TV's made by Princess. Most commonly used as a monitor by VZers. (false survey)
* Dubios and McNamara - where are you?

There, thats taken care of copyright!


Quick note:
Some of these articles, pages, reviews and magazines have been saved as .GIF, .JPG & some as a non-copressed .TIF file format (from photocopies of photocopied original 9 pin dot matrix printouts) - each page occupying somewhere around 1 or 2 meg each. All of the Hunter Valley mags have been re-sized to 800 by its aspect ratio, then reduced to 2 bit colour, then saved as a .GIF file - reducing each page down to around 20 to 35k in size. Hence a 12 page journal magazine is around 300 to 400k in size. Quality has been pretty much thrown out the window. If you can not read anything, please email me and I shall try to fix it up.

Dave - CanYouPleaseFixMySpaceBarOnMyVZ?

djmaunder@rockdale.com.au

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