Dragon upgraded to 64

DRAGON Data has at last announced its scheme to allow Dragon 32 owners to upgrade to a Dragon 64.
Since April, when the company first announced its intention to offer an upgrade, the cost has doubled and the way the offer will be carried out has changed.

It will now cost Dragon 32 owners £140 to end up with a Dragon 64, and the upgrade, not now in the form of a circuit-board swap, will be a straight part-exchange deal.

From mid-December, registered owners of the Dragon 32 will be able to return their machines to Dragon in Port Talbot and get an £85 discount off a brand new Dragon 64 computer.

A 64K machine is necessary in order to run the OS9 disc operating system software now being offered by Dragon.

Although the offer is considerably more expensive than originally suggested, and comes six months later than planned, it is more than Sinclair offered ZX81 owners or Commodore gave to Vic20 purchasers.