What It Does
Slogger's Click is a 9cm x 7cm x 1.5cm creme coloured interface, the same size as an Acornsoft ROM cartridge. It connects only to an Acorn Electron computer that has been expanded with either an Acorn Plus 1, an AP1 or a Rombox+.
Click contains a 32K ROM, 32K of Battery backed RAM, a Calendar Clock chip (as used in the Master 128 machine), a rechargeable Battery and control hardware. On its top is a push button switch that is used to switch control to and from the cartridge to the machine.
When entered, Click offers the following facilities:
DIARY | ... | CALENDAR, APPOINTMENTS, ADDRESS BOOK |
TAPE TO DISC | ... | ADFS and DFS |
ADFS UTILS | ... | EXTREE, FORMAT, VERIFY, DISK EDIT, SNAPSHOOT |
DFS UTILS | ... | CATALOGUE, FORMAT, VERIFY, DISK EDIT, SNAPSHOOT |
SYSTEM UTILS | ... | MEMORY EDITOR, CONFIGURE PRINTER, CMOS CLOCK, ROMS, MOUSE |
SCREEN DUMP | ... | GRAPHIC SCREENS, TEXT SCREENS |
When the user exits Click, the memory and screen is restored and use continues exactly where the Electron left off.
The Click cartridge was originally available by mail order only for £59.95. It was released very late in the Electron's lifetime and bought by only a small handful of people. With as much on-board memory in its little coffers as that of the Electron itself, Click disturbs nothing when functioning. Very, very rarely, a second hand Click comes up on eBay. The last one seen there had a start bid price of £100.00, but did not sell for this, suggesting that although the interface is extremely rare, it may not command a price that reflects this. However, it may sell for upwards of £25.00.
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