[Coco] Wordpak
Chuck Youse
cyouse at serialtechnologies.com
Mon Jul 14 14:30:53 EDT 2008
On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 18:39 +0100, Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:
> Chuck Youse wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 16:21 +0100, Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:
> >> Quoting Chuck Youse <cyouse at serialtechnologies.com>:
> >>
> [wordpak board]
> > When I get it, I will do. I will probably also reverse-engineer and
> > make clone boards.
>
> Hehehe that's pretty much the intention here too :)
Looks like the Wordpak manual has a schematic. W00t! Haven't looked to
closely, but based on the docs I've read, I think they're using the
6545, not the 6845. The one nice feature of the 6545 was that it would
act as a gateway to the display RAM, requiring neither complex
multiplexing nor dual-ported RAM.
Of course, these days, dual-ported RAM is cheap, and any design I make
will probably use that..
C.
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