Originally thought to be vaporware, this rare cartridge has
recently turned up in the hands of a VideoBrain
collector. However this cartridge proved to be full of
surprises, when the collector noticed that the label had
peeled up and revealed that it was a prototype!
The back of the cartridge also provided some
interesting information.
Unfortunately without a manual, using Information
Manager is almost impossible. All we know at this point
is that it require Expander 1 (which makes sense) and will
throw an I/O Error if you try and run the cartridge without
it.
If Expander 1 is plugged in Information Manager
presents a menu asking you to either ENTER a program, REVIEW a
program, or EDIT a program.
If you select ENTER you will be asked to enter
a Database name, a Program name, a program Length, and a
program Type. Since without the instruction manual there
is no way to know exactly what Information Manager is asking
for, this is about as far as we can get.
So was Information Manager actually released? It's hard
to say, but at least we know it was actually developed.
We'll post more information about this cartridge as soon as we
can.