[Coco] Ebay 190089697152 RS Tandy TRS-80 Disk/Video Interface

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 08 March 2007, Chester A Patterson wrote:
>Ebay 190089697152 RS Tandy TRS-80 Disk/Video Interface
>I've never seen anything like this! Looks like a Coco floppy disk
>controller. Other than being a very large dual 5.25" floppy unit, what
>could the video interface business be about? /Chester
>
That's probably some version of the Word-Pak.  It generated a text only, 
80x24 screen on a monochrome monitor.  I modified mine to make the 
display use a lot more of the screen and 25 lines since it did have 
enough memory for 25.  And with the right drivers loaded on a coco3 
running os9, you can use it as a separate, always visible screen on a 2nd 
monitor sitting beside the 8cm515 color monitor.

It impressed the heck out of the frogs running winderz at the time when I 
started an assembly that made a listing and then listed the listing to 
that screen _while it was being generated_.  :-)

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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