[Coco] Sneak peek

Steven Hirsch snhirsch at gmail.com
Sun Feb 15 09:21:03 EST 2009


On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Ryan Pritchard wrote:

> Hasn't the patent expired on the MPI design so someone can replicate that 
> thing and put it into production again?

I seriously doubt that Tandy held patents on the MPI.  If you squint, the 
PAL equations used in the small beige unit might be subject to copyright 
protection, but that's even a stretch.

The major challenge in cloning the MPI is the mechanical aspect.


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