[Coco] Disto SC add-ons

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 30 December 2008, Benoit Bleau wrote:
>Roger Taylor wrote:
>> Does anyone know how in the heck the addon with the video chip is
>> supposed to output video or how it works?  The board also has a clock
>> chip which seems to be running even though the board is old.. you can
>> PEEK from BASIC and see the clock registers changing.  I do have the
>> register specs on the clock.  The video chip is a CRT9128. There's an
>> 11mhz crystal, HM6116LP-2 chip, 13x2 header, and 2x2 header.  I see no
>> other ID marks on the board other than the word "Disto" and two color
>> stickers on the back labeled "M" and "T".
>>
>> I see nothing in the Disto SC docs explaining the details of this
>> board, just a mention that it's one of the add-ons.
>
>if I recall, I had one of these boards 15 years ago?  and it worked only
>with OS9. It required a driver to be installed.
>I returned it to CRC computers, because it had a horrible wobble in the
>image.

Humm, were you purchance operating the monitor sitting adjacent to the regular 
color monitor?  The leakage of magnetic fields from the deflection yoke of 
the color monitor will make a Maggy PC-80 13" wobble very noticeably.  I put 
a sheet of steel between them which helped quite a bit.

>-Benoit
>
>--
>Coco mailing list
>Coco at maltedmedia.com
>http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco



-- 
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
THEGODDESSOFTHENETHASTWISTINGFINGERSANDHERVOICEISLIKEAJAVELININTHENIGHTDUDE