10 Facts About Exidy Sorcerer

Exidy Sorcerer wanted a consumer computer that was user-friendly beyond anything currently in the marketplace.

Exidy Sorcerer made its debut at the Long Beach Computer Show in April 1978.

Exidy Sorcerer was competitively priced at $895 and went to market in Long Beach California in April 1978 and generated a 4, 000 unit back-log on introduction.

Exidy Sorcerer was thus keen to concentrate on international sales though recognizing the importance of its US presence for development and marketing purposes.

Exidy Sorcerer took this to another level by licensing production both domestically and internationally, increasing total production and market penetration without calling on cash flow.

Related searches

The Sorcerer Computer Users group of Australia actively supported the Sorcerer long after Exidy discontinued it, with RAM upgrades, speed boosts, the "80-column card", and even a replacement monitor program, SCUAMON.

Exidy Sorcerer was a combination of parts from a standard S-100 bus machine and its custom display circuitry.

The Exidy Sorcerer's keyboard was a high quality unit with full "throw".

The Exidy Sorcerer included a small ROM containing a simple monitor program which allowed the machine to be controlled at the machine language level, as well as load programs from cassette tape or cartridges.

Exidy Sorcerer instead chose another method entirely, which was to use definable character graphics.