[Coco] COCO Video

Mike Pepe lamune at doki-doki.net
Mon Jun 24 01:52:54 EDT 2013


John, you've probably been asked this before, but what do you think of the
theory that the 6847 and 6883 were designed specifically for Tandy? The 6883
in particular smells like a breadboard of TTL glue that got the old
shrinkeroo into a 40 pin DIP.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-
> bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of john dumas
> Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 2:33 PM
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [Coco] COCO Video
> 
> On 6/20/2013 3:02 PM, Mike Pepe wrote:
> > John, if anyone should have seen it in breadboard form, it should have
> > been you!
> Yeah, that's what I've always thought.
> Of course, there was a lot that never found it's way down to the "grunts".
> And the VDG project, more than any other at the time, was a prime example
> of that. There surely was "stuff" going on in other groups - MOT was very
> Bottoms-Up at that time - that never got well known in other groups.......
> 
> I don't think Boisy could have picked a more difficult task - history
wise, that
> is........
> 
> 
> 
> Now his Atari design (Liber809) work...WOW, that looks really tough.
> And truly amazing.
> 
> cheers,
> johnd
> 
> 
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