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In 1983, Apple dropped the price of the Apple II for schools from $4800 to $1200, and although Customs forced them to raise it again to $2020, the Poly was left a long way above the market price, at $8090. Polycorp (as the manufacturers were called), were quite peeved, but still managed to sell the computer in China until the late 80s.
There is scarcely any information about the Poly available. Bits and Bytes vol. 1, No. 1 has a feature article on the Poly vs Apple controvesy, [roughly summarised by Douglas Bagnall | http://list.waikato.ac.nz/pipermail/ada_list/2005-July/001016.html]. There is [another article elsewhere | http://www.embassy.org.nz/computer/progeni.htm], but apart from that the web knows nothing of the Poly.
-The stuff website has an [article from April 2006 celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Poly | http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/,2106,3645342a28,00.html]. A 4th year research project on the Poly ([Retro-computing | http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/staffpriv/ok/topics06.htm]) was offered at Otago University in 2006, but at this stage we do not know if it was taken up
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+The stuff website has an [article from April 2006 celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Poly | http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/,2106,3645342a28,00.html].
+Andrew Trotman at the University of Otago has been working on building an emulator for the Poly-1. Old Manuals, dumps of the ROMs, and varuious dissassemblies can be found here: http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/homepages/andrew/Poly/Poly.htm
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