Welcome to the DRAGON Data Archive |
This site is dedicated to one of the many British small micro companies that never made it. The early years of mass home computing (1980-85) were the 'golden years' never to be repeated, with so many companies with so many products but the Dragon was where it all began for me. Whilst all around me where ZX Spectrums with it's fantastic game library the Dragon still won for me with it's better BASIC and 'professional' keyboard. The rest is history so please feel free to browse around and take a look at what was Dragon Data and their products. All comments, corrections, additional information, pictures
etc. is always greatly appreciated, please email:
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Finds
and News |
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21 October 17 | ||||
The
Information Machine Code Users
is now available for download. Thanks to Geoff Campbell for the original scan |
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17 October 17 | ||||
The Dragon Data Archive makes a pilgrimage to the former Dragon Data factory at Kenfig, Port Talbot. |
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16 October 17 | ||||
Remastered the pcitures
outside the Kenfig factory and
Kevin Stephens outside the factory. Again thanks Gareth Tuttiett for the original photos. |
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11 October 17 | ||||
The
Machine Code Start Pack (9MB) is now available for download, now larger and better colour. Again thanks Gareth Tuttiett |
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06 October 17 | ||||
It's been 5 years
in the making...... |
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22 September 17 | ||||
Digging through archive backlog finds the
Errata To BASIC Programming scanned from Gareth Tuttiett's copy |
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11 July 17 | ||||
Another item from Duncan Smeed, letters to the
publisher in reference to Inside
The Dragon |
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26 June 17 | ||||
Found some unprocessed items from my visits to Duncan Smeed years ago. First of those items to get processed and restored is a document describing the changes required to OS9 for the Dragon 128 (Beta) prototype. |
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24 June 17 | ||||
DragonData.co.uk has new hosting so a... BBig Thanks to... Simon of the archive.worldofdragon.org for letting me piggyback off his site all these years. |
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22 June 17 | ||||
The first Dragon (and 6809) meet in over 20 years occured at The Centre for Computing History, see the pics here. |
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22 June 10 | ||||
The Dragon presence at the VCF doesn't go unoticed at The Register. Not the worlds best comment, or as Steve C put it: The Dragon takes a bashing on the first page |
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21 June 10 | ||||
The Dragon Data archive is thrust into the real world and help show the world the way of the Dragon at the Vintage Computer Festival @ Bletchley Park, pics and more info here. |
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11 April 06 | ||||
John has been very busy scanning in the circuit diagrams of the Beta prototype. The keyboard and the first sheet has been done. Here they are. |
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27 Mar 06 | ||||
MORE Beta Pics!!
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4 Jan 06 | ||||
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
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26 Sept 05 | ||||
THE BETA ROARS!!
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13 Nov 05 | ||||
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12 Sept 05 | ||||
Paul Grade who spent *many* hours running the National Dragon Users Group (NDUG) and even more helping Dragon users solve their problems has sadly passed away, I'll leave it to these quotes to say it all.....
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9 Sept 05 | ||||
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18 July 05 | ||||
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19 June 05 | ||||
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10 May 05 | ||||
Well months of spending my evenings fixing the Alpha has caught up and meant I had to take a serious break. Recently been working (again) with Phill Harvey-Smith, who has done some absolute *stella* work over the last few months. His work has produced:
After NitrOS9 and DOS became available it rapidly became apparent that the Dragon Alpha had intermittent problems with the floppy drives. As Phill is currently the source of any software for the Alpha it required another visit to his domain to discover where the problems lay (Floppy drives, Alpha, software, floppy creating etc. etc.) After a good poke about and a re-cal of the floppy controller and it's back in business - a massive improvement in reliability. Also added the Dragon DOS cart circuit diagram. | ||||
2002, 2003 and 2004 | ||||
2001 and Before | ||||
Aims and Polices of the Archive Also many thanks to the other Dragon/TRS-80 recourses on the web, who's information has been most invaluable in compiling this site. Disclaimer: (1) Please not that this site
is in no way owned/affiliated to Dragon Data Ltd. or Eurohard. |
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