[Coco] Gidday Fellow coconuts. This will be an interesting read

[brian palmer]

Gidday Alan.

Who knows if Tandy got the patent. James from this list very much doubts Tandy got the patent. But there is nothing stopping Tandy from using ideas from the RMS chipset and putting them in a new LSI custom chip. By a reference i read in the undercolor magazine. after Motorola pushed back the release date for another 6-9 months as the second batch run of the RMS had too many bugs. Tandy decided to go it alone and design the new Chip for the OS-9 Model 9 which turned out to be the coco 3. Also this reference mentions tandy poached some of the designers from Motorola who worked on the RMS to do the new LSI custom chip for Tandy!

So if we could track down the names of the Designers, It could give us more avenues to tracking down specific Gime features that were patented on their own etc. As there is no one Patent on the Gime so far. But Features could have been patented as alone features. I have only found 1 patent that mentions the coco 3. But this patent deals with the serial port and it's usages when hooked up to a "printer"

I have tried in vain to locate any patents done by Mark Siegel concerning the coco 3. So any other Gime feature patents could be in the name of the Gime designers other than Mark Siegel. So who on this mailing list knows the names of the other designers. Maybe Steve Bjork knows the other designers names?